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"2017-04-23T06:39:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00be557bf", "title": "Gwoyeu Romatzyh in the wild", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2017/gwoyeu-romatzyh-in-the-wild/", "published_at": "2017-04-10T14:29:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00ce2b947", "title": "Tai vs Tai", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2017/tai-vs-tai/", "published_at": "2017-03-21T11:55:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00dcb631a", "title": "Zhou Youguang, 1906-2017", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2017/zhou-youguang-1906-2017/", "published_at": "2017-01-14T11:33:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00dee4d07", "title": "How to find Chinese characters in an MS Word document", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/how-to-find-chinese-characters-in-an-ms-word-document/", "published_at": "2016-12-10T15:23:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00def9711", "title": "Taipei to spend NT$300 million making MRT signage worse", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/taipei-to-spend-nt300-million-making-mrt-signage-worse/", "published_at": "2016-10-29T04:41:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00e16872f", "title": "Aiyo! OED fails to use Pinyin for some new entries", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/aiyo-oed-fails-to-use-pinyin-for-some-new-entries/", "published_at": "2016-09-13T16:29:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00ef8c367", "title": "Biscriptal butt texting", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/biscriptal-butt-texting/", "published_at": "2016-08-26T15:02:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00f48815e", "title": "Shanghai considers deleting Pinyin from street signs", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/shanghai-considers-deleting-pinyin-from-street-signs/", "published_at": "2016-08-23T10:12:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d00f91dbbd", "title": "Pinyin writing contest — cash prizes", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/pinyin-writing-contest-cash-prizes/", "published_at": "2016-07-06T05:57:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d01037bea2", "title": "Mind the line break", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/mind-the-line-break/", "published_at": "2016-03-05T03:44:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bddd-dc16-7126-b1ee-d7d0104daaec", "title": "Pinyin.info in the Wall Street Journal", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/pinyin-info-in-the-wall-street-journal/", "published_at": "2016-02-27T05:04:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d8785e4096b9", "title": "Pinyin.com domain changes hands for a six-figure sum", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/pinyin-com-domain-changes-hands-for-a-six-figure-sum/", "published_at": "2016-02-25T14:31:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d8785e998491", "title": "Languages, scripts, and signs: a walk around Taipei’s Shixin University", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/languages-scripts-and-signs-a-walk-around-taipeis-shixin-university/", "published_at": "2016-01-07T13:48:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d8785eac2156", "title": "Pinyin font: Neris", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2016/pinyin-font-neris/", "published_at": "2016-01-05T11:07:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d8785f6266f0", "title": "Shit happens", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2015/shit-happens/", "published_at": "2015-12-22T11:41:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d8785f6c9b70", "title": "Attitudes in Hong Kong toward Mandarin and Cantonese", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2015/attitudes-in-hong-kong-toward-mandarin-and-cantonese/", "published_at": "2015-12-12T03:59:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d87860261afc", "title": "Every which way", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2015/every-which-way/", "published_at": "2015-12-07T14:40:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d878607aac5f", "title": "Pinyin font: Demos Next", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2015/pinyin-font-demos-next/", "published_at": "2015-12-05T04:26:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d878614cc85e", "title": "Taiwan presidential campaign logos", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2015/taiwan-presidential-campaign-logos/", "published_at": "2015-12-04T10:49:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d8786215d1a7", "title": "New Zealand, language, and ‘Chinese’", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2015/new-zealand-language-and-chinese/", "published_at": "2015-12-03T12:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde0-8ae6-72d0-9acb-d87862452ace", "title": "Wenlin on sale", "url": "https://pinyin.info/news/2015/wenlin-on-sale/", "published_at": "2015-12-03T04:49:10+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

Memorial Service for Victor Mair original ↗

15 Sept 2026

Victor H. Mair, 1943–2026 original ↗

20 Jul 2026

2024

Alphabetic ‘s’ for Ms.original ↗

18 Dec 2024

Chinese characters no longer required for Taiwan Aborigine names original ↗

21 May 2024

Schools should spend more time teaching Pinyin: PRC politician original ↗

7 Mar 2024

Japan to switch official romanization from Kunrei-shiki to Hepburn original ↗

4 Mar 2024

Book sale original ↗

16 Feb 2024

Online talk on Zhou Youguang original ↗

6 Feb 2024

2023

Tis the season original ↗

24 Dec 2023

Hsiao Bi-khim promotes speaking aboriginal languages, Taiwanese original ↗

23 Dec 2023

New rule on Chinese names criticized original ↗

16 Dec 2023

San Francisco politicians and what constitutes a Chinese name original ↗

11 Dec 2023

‘My Bunun name is …’original ↗

27 Nov 2023

US postsecondary enrollments in Chinese trending down original ↗

26 Nov 2023

US doctorates in Chinese and Japanese over time original ↗

23 Nov 2023

Taiwan completes its zhuyin fuhao stamp series original ↗

22 Nov 2023

Taiwan 2024 presidential campaign English slogans original ↗

18 Oct 2023

Terry who?original ↗

24 Sept 2023

T-shirts with romanized Taiwanese original ↗

23 Jul 2023

OEC is D-licious original ↗

15 Jul 2023

Prevalence of single-syllable Taiwanese given names original ↗

30 Jun 2023

Mi casa es su kasha original ↗

22 Jun 2023

Mandarin words with more than one apostrophe original ↗

11 Jun 2023

Most common baby names in China, 2020 original ↗

5 Jun 2023

Prevalence of single-syllable Chinese given names original ↗

1 Jun 2023

Reagan candy original ↗

26 May 2023

The most common given names in Taiwan, by decade original ↗

23 May 2023

Gwoyeu Romatzyh on Taiwan buses original ↗

18 May 2023

Two-syllable Taiwanese family names original ↗

15 May 2023

Two-syllable Chinese family names original ↗

15 May 2023

SF politicians and Chinese names original ↗

12 May 2023

Why is the ROC govt trying to make Taiwanese look like Singaporeans?original ↗

9 May 2023

Malaysian state moves to boost Hokkien original ↗

8 May 2023

If you ever find yourself stuck on how to pronounce English original ↗

7 May 2023

ChatGPT writes poetry in Pinyin, sort of original ↗

2 May 2023

Mother-effing noodles original ↗

30 Apr 2023

History podcast episode on loanwords original ↗

25 Apr 2023

Taipei MRT’s new in-car signage sucks original ↗

21 Apr 2023

OMG, it’s nougat original ↗

15 Apr 2023

Microsoft Translator and Pinyin original ↗

15 Apr 2023

Japan likely to regulate pronunciations of personal names original ↗

14 Apr 2023

Japan to add romanization to names on My Number cards original ↗

11 Apr 2023

Tone marks on Taiwan store sign’s Pinyin original ↗

10 Apr 2023

Majority supports adding English requirement for applicants for Singapore citizenship: poll original ↗

6 Apr 2023

Large Mongolian-Korean dictionary released original ↗

5 Apr 2023

Chunghwa, Chunghua, Zhonghua original ↗

23 Mar 2023

Taiwan issues bopomofo postage stamps original ↗

22 Mar 2023

OMG, another rabbit pun!original ↗

10 Mar 2023

Turkey, Türkiye, and Chinese characters original ↗

25 Feb 2023

Pinyin, US trademark law, and myths about Chinese characters original ↗

5 Feb 2023

Happy New Year tu You!original ↗

28 Jan 2023

2022

North Korea cracking down on wussy given names that don’t end in consonants original ↗

7 Dec 2022

Grammar shrammar original ↗

26 Nov 2022

Atomic Enema Gwoyeu Romatzyh original ↗

17 Aug 2022

Big Pinyin on Chengdu Storefronts original ↗

30 Jun 2022

Who you callin’ “grandma”?!original ↗

18 Jun 2022

Year of the Tiger puns, part 1 original ↗

17 Feb 2022

Cantonese version of Wordle original ↗

30 Jan 2022

2020

Old Taipei street sign original ↗

21 Oct 2020

2019

Follow me original ↗

12 Nov 2019

How to find Windows files that contain Chinese characters original ↗

27 May 2019

Article on early Tongyong Pinyin on Taipei street signs original ↗

30 Jan 2019

Unnecessarily wordy sign original ↗

29 Jan 2019

2018

Dungan-English Dictionary published original ↗

25 Oct 2018

Reasons Gwoyeu Romatzyh never caught on, part 39 original ↗

3 Sept 2018

US postsecondary enrollments in Mandarin fall original ↗

9 Mar 2018

MLA undercounts enrollments in ‘Chinese’ classes original ↗

9 Mar 2018

Google commemorates Zhou Youguang original ↗

14 Jan 2018

Pinyin-friendly display faces at Google Fonts original ↗

13 Jan 2018

Pinyin-friendly handwriting faces at Google Fonts original ↗

12 Jan 2018

Pinyin-friendly monospace faces at Google Fonts original ↗

11 Jan 2018

Pinyin-friendly sans serif faces at Google Fonts original ↗

10 Jan 2018

Pinyin-friendly serif faces at Google Fonts original ↗

9 Jan 2018

More Americans studying in Japan original ↗

6 Jan 2018

China attracting fewer and fewer U.S. study-abroad students original ↗

3 Jan 2018

2017

How to add tone marks to Pinyin automatically, sort of original ↗

30 Jun 2017

Attitudes in Hong Kong toward Mandarin and Cantonese original ↗

29 Jun 2017

Guabao original ↗

25 Apr 2017

Most Common Taiwanese Given Names original ↗

23 Apr 2017

Gwoyeu Romatzyh in the wild original ↗

10 Apr 2017

Tai vs Tai original ↗

21 Mar 2017

Zhou Youguang, 1906-2017 original ↗

14 Jan 2017

2016

How to find Chinese characters in an MS Word document original ↗

10 Dec 2016

Taipei to spend NT$300 million making MRT signage worse original ↗

29 Oct 2016

Aiyo! OED fails to use Pinyin for some new entries original ↗

13 Sept 2016

Biscriptal butt texting original ↗

26 Aug 2016

Shanghai considers deleting Pinyin from street signs original ↗

23 Aug 2016

Pinyin writing contest — cash prizes original ↗

6 Jul 2016

Mind the line break original ↗

5 Mar 2016

Pinyin.info in the Wall Street Journal original ↗

27 Feb 2016

Pinyin.com domain changes hands for a six-figure sum original ↗

25 Feb 2016

Languages, scripts, and signs: a walk around Taipei’s Shixin University original ↗

7 Jan 2016

Pinyin font: Neris original ↗

5 Jan 2016

2015

Shit happens original ↗

22 Dec 2015

Attitudes in Hong Kong toward Mandarin and Cantonese original ↗

12 Dec 2015

Every which way original ↗

7 Dec 2015

Pinyin font: Demos Next original ↗

5 Dec 2015

Taiwan presidential campaign logos original ↗

4 Dec 2015

New Zealand, language, and ‘Chinese’original ↗

3 Dec 2015

Wenlin on sale original ↗

3 Dec 2015