WKAR

China's Zhou Youguang, father of Pinyin writing system, dies aged 111

Pinyin is now used to teach Chinese around the world Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, who created the writing system that turns Chinese characters into words using letters from the Roman alphabet, has ...
HeraldNet

Zhou Youguang, who created Pinyin writing system, dies at 111

Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn to read and write ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Zhou Youguang, linguist who developed modern China’s Pinyin Romanized writing system, dies at 111

Reporting from beijingReporting from beijing — Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China’s Pinyin Romanization writing system, died Saturday at the age of 111. Born in 1906 ...
Ars Technica

Typing a combining overbar on an iPad with a hardware keyboard

I’m trying to write Pinyin (versus inputting Chinese in Pinyin), and I’m running into an annoying issue with the hardware keyboard. There’s no way to write a character with an overbar short of ...
The Washington Post

Zhou Youguang, whose Pinyin writing system helped modernize China, dies at 111

Zhou Youguang, a onetime Wall Street banker from China who developed Pinyin, a Romanized writing system that has helped more than 1 billion Chinese and countless foreigners learn Mandarin, died Jan.