Answer: pinyin

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PINYINSystem of Chinese transliteration
PINYINChinese transliteration system
pinyin(Chinese) a system for romanizing Chinese ideograms in which tones are indicated by diacritics and unaspirated consonants are transcribed as voiced
pinyinsystem for transliterating Chinese into the Latin alphabet: introduced in 1958 and adopted as the official system of romanization by the People's Republic of China in 1979