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Pinyin celebrates 50th birthday, one billion people use it to learnChinese
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Pinyin celebrates 50th birthday, one billion people use it to
learnChinese
BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Hanyu Pinyin, or the Chinese
phonetic system, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Monday (Feb.
11). One billion Chinese have used it to learn mandarin since the
first edition of pinyin was issued in 1958.
"Pinyin is useful. It helps us to learn Chinese characters.
Thanks to pinyin, we learnt how to read," 92-year-old Chen Douxiang
from Wanrong County, northern Shanxi Province, still remembered the
pinyin poem she learned 50 years ago.
The first edition of Pinyin was adopted at the Fifth ...
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