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<p>Hanyu Pinyin Romanization is one system to represent Chinese characters with Roman letters, based on each character's pronunciation in the modern Mandarin dialect.  It is one of three most commonly used systems in modern times.  Most recently written matter uses Pinyin Romanizations.  </p>

<p>If you wish to find an on-line source for pronouncing a name in Mandarin, please make note of the Pinyin Romanization.  To pronounce the name correctly, also make note of the superscripted number that follows each syllable.  These numbers indicate spoken tones. (With the possible exception of the umlaut of &uuml;, diacritical marks and tone indicators are pronunciation guides that are not currently registerable in the SCA.)</p>

<p>Now you are ready to use one of the many sites that describe Mandarin dialect pronunciations.  One of these sites is Harvard University's "Chinese Pronunciation Guide," at <a href="http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~pinyin/" target="external"> http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~pinyin/</a>.</p>

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