More recently, ethnologist Yu Bor-chuan has spearheaded the effort to develop Tongyong Pinyin, which is basically a modified version of Hanyu Pinyin. Yu, a researcher at Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, touts his system as being compatible with Hanyu Pinyin while providing for the romanization of Taiwanese and Hakka as well.
近幾年，由中研院民族學所助研究員余伯泉所研發的「通用拼音」，基本上是依據大陸的漢語拼音做修訂。由於其標榜與漢語拼音有極高的相容性，並且也適用於拼讀台、客語，因而躍上舞台。