Sichuanese Pinyin (Si⁴cuan¹hua⁴ Pin¹yin¹; ), is a

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system specifically designed for the

Chengdu dialect Chengdu-Chongqing dialect or Cheng–Yu (; Sichuanese Pinyin: ''Cen2yu2'', ) is the most widely used branch of Southwestern Mandarin, with about 90 million speakers. It is named after Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan, and Chongqing, which was ...

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. It is mostly used in selected Sichuanese dictionaries, such as the ''Sichuan Dialect Dictionary'', ''Sichuan Dialect's Vocabulary Explanation'', and the ''Chengdu Dialect Dictionary''. Sichuanese Pinyin is based on

Hanyu Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...

, the only

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system officially instructed within the

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, for convenience amongst users. However, there is also the problem that it is unable to match the phonology of Sichuanese with complete precision, especially in the case for the

Minjiang dialect The Minjiang dialect (, ; ) is a branch of Sichuanese, spoken mainly in the Min River (''Mínjiāng'') valley or along the Yangtze in the southern and western parts of the Sichuan Basin in China. There is also a language island of the Minjiang ...

, as there are many differences between Sichuanese and

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in phonology.

Scheme

Initials

Below each IPA symbol in the table below are the letters which correspond to their respective sounds in Sichuanese Pinyin, and a sample

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with that initial:

Finals

Below each IPA symbol in the table below are the letters which correspond to their respective sounds in Sichuanese Pinyin, and a sample Chinese character with that syllable rime:

Tones

The Sichuanese Pinyin system uses superscript numbers to mark the four tones of Chengdu dialect. The number is placed on the top right corner of every syllable, where "1" stands for the first tone, "2" stands for the second tone, and so forth.

Rules

The rules of Sichuanese Pinyin are based on those of Hanyu Pinyin.

Sample text

The following sample text is a selection of Sichuanese idioms in Sichuanese Pinyin, Scuanxua

Latinxua Sin Wenz Latinxua Sin Wenz (; also known as Sin Wenz "New Script", Zhungguo Latinxua Sin Wenz "China Latinized New Script", Latinxua "Latinization") is a historical set of romanizations for Chinese languages, although references to Sin Wenz usually refe ...

(in Sichuanese) and Hanyu Pinyin (in Standard Mandarin pronunciation), for comparative purposes:

References

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