The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
In contrast to the haphazardly evolved Chinese characters, how is Pīnyīn well-designed, neat, and orderly, like the manufacturing processes inside our cells?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
While the manufacturing processes inside our cells are not haphazard, how is the design of Chinese characters haphazard?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Is a character like “喇” really less ambiguous than a Pīnyīn expression like “lǎ”?
Joshua 2:1 in the Mandarin NWT Study Bible, in the JW Library app
Joshua 2:1 in the PDF for the old printed Pīnyīn NWT Bible
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How do some nitpick about Pīnyīn while ignoring a huge issue about characters?
Screenshot of “jìjiào” in 1 Co. 13:5 (nwtsty, CHS+Pīnyīn WOL)
The problem is not that Pīnyīn is like training wheels, because Pīnyīn is actually like regular wheels. The real problem is that characters are like square wheels!
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
How can the beaver’s impressive industriousness and construction ability help us to reach the hearts of people in the Mandarin field?
A screenshot of the article “The Beaver’s Construction Ability” on jw.org
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Are Chinese characters really indispensable? Is it really true that the Chinese languages cannot be written alphabetically?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Are homophones really a showstopper when it comes to using Pīnyīn to write Mandarin? How are homographs a similar problem for characters?
Many claim that _Pīnyīn_ shouldn’t be used as a writing system because characters are required to avoid confusion from all the homophones (different words that sound the same) in Mandarin.
— Troubadour WW (@troubadourww) April 8, 2025
If that’s true, then people shouldn’t SPEAK Mandarin either! But many do, and it’s fine. pic.twitter.com/1MK0ERuFjc
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Are Chinese characters the ultimate clarifiers of meaning in Mandarin? Also, what is the correct way to pronounce Mandarin’s “r” sound?
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The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Critics of Pīnyīn like to talk about the different words in Mandarin that sound the same, but what about the different Mandarin words that are written with the same characters?
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