Zhou Youguang, creator of the Pinyin writing system, has died
pinyin is not nearly as good as zhuyin in regards to phonetic representation.<p>as one example, some words like pinyin&#x27;s &#x2F;zhun&#x2F; look like they should have one syllable, but there&#x27;s actually two, as far as i can tell. or at the least, the schwa is definitely missing from the pinyin representation, as in, it&#x27;s not &#x2F;zhu@n&#x2F;, where @ is the schwa.<p>pinyin is rife with oversights like this, that a learner has no idea about, and indeed instructional guides don&#x27;t even mention much of the time.<p>if you&#x27;re serious about learning chinese, don&#x27;t use pinyin unless you want to spend extra time undoing the damage done by doing so.