... for the romanization of Chinese words using the Latin alphabet, it was adopted in 1979 by the Chinese government Students of Chinese as a second language start out by learning pinyin and pinyin ... give the simplified Chinese characters for the term Then appears the pinyin, in bold, with tone marks Then, for those who are new to Chinese and have not yet learned pinyin, I have written out, in ... Damn you! A northern Chinese variation on the above Literally “your grandfather” (implying “his grandfather’s”) 你奶奶 Nǐ nǎinai (nee nigh nigh), “your grandmother,” is common in northern China as...