How does Pin yin relate to Chinese characters?
Pin yin is not a language but is instead used to teach Chinese schoolchildren and foreign learners the standard pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese, a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and south-western China which has more native speakers than any other language. The number of modern Chinese characters is considerably larger than the possibly combination of initials and finals in pin yin. Nowadays, Pin yin is widely used by younger Chinese speakers to enter Chinese text into computers and mobile phones.
