
Unlike Hanyu Pinyin, finals like üan, üe, ün will be combined with uan, ue and un in this input method, thus characters like "決" will be spelled as jue instead of jüe, and character "圈" will use que instead of qüe. There are 23 Initials in the Pinyin System, they are: For the sake of convenience, the pinyin input method does not use tone marks. For example, the initial of the character "酒" is j, and the final is iu, therefore the Mandarin syllable of the character is spelled as jiu. The system uses Latin alphabets to denote the initial and final of the character. Hanyu Pinyin which is called Pinyin in short is based on the pronunciation of Putonghua or Mandarin and is the standard romanization system for Chinese. X Online Pinyin Input Method is based on the Hànyǔ Pīnyīn romanization.
