Cantonese Pinyin has 56 finals (the equivalent of consonants in English), while Putonghua has 37. Poon says the large amount of finals is one of the main reasons why many Chinese learners (both ...

Two Italian priests named Matteo Ricci and Michele Ruggieri co-wrote the Portuguese-Chinese dictionary ... “Since Hanyu Pinyin uses the same 26 letters as the English alphabet, it is much ...