Wiktionary:About Chinese/Mandarin

This page deals with the specific issues of Mandarin Chinese entries on Wiktionary. For language-independent guidelines for entries see Entry layout. For guidelines for Chinese entries generally, see About Chinese.

Pronunciation
Taiwan's and mainland China's  give official standard pronunciations for Chinese characters in Mandarin Chinese. Where these standards diverge or depart from actual usage, a note of the divergence should be made at Module:zh/data/cmn-tag.

Orthography of Pronunciation Transcription Systems
There are many systems for the transcription of Mandarin Chinese into non-Chinese character written systems. These systems include: Hanyu Pinyin, Bopomofo, Wade-Giles Romanization, Xiao'erjing, etc.

Hanyu Pinyin
Mainland China's, which created Hanyu Pinyin, was officially promulgated 1958. Since that time, many documents have been published governing the proper usage of Hanyu Pinyin. (2012) gives many of the important rules for current standard Pinyin orthography.