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Pinyinize en · VERB

Etymology

From Pinyin + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To romanize Standard Mandarin using the Pinyin system.
   • At the height of the movement to pinyinise place names in Singapore, Bukit Panjang, now a Housing and Development Board New Town, was known as Zhenghua, along with Yisbun for Nee Soon, and Zhujiao market for tek kha market in Kandang Kerbau. 2013, Victor R Savage, Brenda Yeoh, Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics, page 55:
   • The move to Pinyinise Chinese names in schools meant technically switching to a different system of spelling for names to which people were unaccustomed to. 1983, Ministry of Culture, The Mirror, numbers 19-20:
   • A quick Google on "French Revolution" "too soon" turns up scads of references to this famous and highly quotable remark, attributed variously to Chou and Mao; some of them even pinyinise the names to Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong. 2002 January 20, Phil Edwards, “Mao (or Chou) and the French Revolution”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), retrieved 23 Apr 2022:
   • I'm not Chinese, but I can tell you that Mao Zedong's Chinese name, 毛泽东, would be officially Pinyinized as "Mao2 Ze2 Dong1", Deng Xiaoping's name, 邓小平, is "Deng4 Xiao3 Ping2" and Beijing's kanji, 北京, is "Bei3 Jing1". 2000 August 10, Your Name Here:, “MAO SAYDONG???”, in alt.tv.game-shows (Usenet), retrieved 23 Apr 2022:
   • However, this distinctive dialect market is slowly being eroded as new parents choose to englishize and pinyinize their children's names. 2015, Jessieca Leo, Global Hakka: Hakka Identity in the Remaking, page 181:
   • To understand why many Singaporeans remained unimpressed with the state's call to Pinyinize personal names, particularly their family names, we need first to appreciate that the more successfully implemented SMC measures were successful precisely because Singaporeans were convinced of their pragmatic and communitarian rationales. 2011, Lionel Wee, Language Without Rights, page 119:

Forms

Hypernyms

romanize