Quotes About Pinyin

For Mandarin scripts, there's software now where you can just insert the Chinese script, and it comes out all in pinyin.

For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.