汉语拼音 hànyǔpīnyīn Hanyu Pinyin Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 汉语拼音方案 hànyǔpīnyīnfāng'àn Hanyu Pinyin system Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet; the official system for transcribing Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet, first approved in 1958.