A Brief Introduction of Chinese Pinyin

What is Pinyin拼音？

• Chinese characters
• Chinese words on the bone
• Calligraphy
• A way to transliterate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Latin letters

What is the official language spoken in PRC?

• Traditional Chinese
• Taiwan Chinese
• Modern Mandarin
• Cantonese

Who was the person first recorded attempt of using the Latin letters to denote the sound of Mandarin?

• Bi Sheng
• Confucius
• Mateo Ricci and Jesuit Nicolas Trigault
• Hanyu Pinyin

When was the Hanyu Pinyin system first adopted by the government of PRC?

• 1979
• 1958
• 1982
• in the 17th century

True or False???
China is the only place which has modern Mandarin Chinese as the official spoken language.

• True
• False

What are the elements of a pinyin syllable?

• Initial + Finals
• Initial+Tone
• Syllable+Vowels
• Initial+Final(s)+Tone

How many initials and finals are there in Pinyin system?

• 21 initials & 26 finals
• 26 initial and finals in total
• 21 initials & 36 finals
• 100 initials and finals in total

True or False
There are five tones in modern Mandarin namely, the 1st tone, the 2nd tone, the 3rd tone, the 4th tone and the neutral tone.

• True
• False

Which tone is called the dip and rise tone?

• 1st tone
• 2nd tone
• 3rd tone
• 4th tone

Which tone is called the down tone?

• 1st tone
• 2nd tone
• 3rd tone
• 4th tone