#gwoyeu

The majority of dictionaries published in Taiwan include both注音符號 zhùyīn fúhào / juhin fwuhaw “National Phonetic Symbols” (known in English as Zhuyin or Bopomofo) and their younger brother, 拼調式羅馬拼音 pīndiàoshì

Actually, there is no such thing as a “Mandarin” newspaper. Mandarin refers to a spoken language. All speakers of Chinese, no matter what dialect they speak, write in a standardized written form called

In China, tiny Pinyin diacritics mark tones, but foreign media can't show tones (plain ASCII [a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and simple punctuation] can't show diacritics). When spelled in ASCII-only “Man-in-the-Street”

Contrary to popular opinion, Gwoyeu Luomaatzyh, the Chinese government’s 1928 tonal spelling for Mandarin Chinese, is still alive in Taiwan. If you live in Taipei, this spelling appears from time to time,