Mandarin Chinese has nearly a billion native speakers ... it can also mean "numb" (má 麻), "horse" (mÇŽ 馬), "to scold" (màç½µ), or a grammar particle that goes at the end of yes/no questions ...
Burt: Correct! Mandarin characters don't give us the sound of a word, so the Chinese invented pinyin to help their learners. They took the letters of the Roman alphabet, the same we use for ...