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Renowned linguist Zhou Youguang. the creator ofpinyin, a system that represents the pronunciations of Chinese characters using the Roman alphabet, passed away on Januanj 14, one day after his 11 lth birthday.
CENTENARIAN LINGUIST PASSES AWAYRenowned linguist Zhou Youguang,the creator of pinyin,a system that represents the pronunciations of Chinese characters using the Roman alphabet, passed away on January 14, one day after his 111th birthday.Born in Changzhou,east China’s Jiangsu Province,on January 13,1906,Zhou studied economics at St.John’s University in Shanghai in the 1920s.He worked for a bank in China
