page_title: Zhou Youguang
hierarchical_section_title: Zhou Youguang
caption_attribution_description: English: 周有光（1906年1月13日－），原名周耀平，生于中國江苏常州，中国语言学家、文字学家，通晓汉、英、法、日四种语言。中国语言学家。此图是他二十多岁青年时期。 中文: Zhou Youguang (born 13 January 1906) is a Chinese linguist who is often credited as the "father of Hanyu Pinyin".
context_page_description: Zhou Youguang, also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system for the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Roman script, or romanization, which was officially adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.
context_section_description: Zhou Youguang (13 January 1906 – 14 January 2017), also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system for the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Roman script, or romanization, which was officially adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.
caption: Zhou in the 1920s
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