Mobile-Friendly Songbook Material 🔼

While we greatly appreciate the availability of the official Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) songbook PDF files, the PDF format was conceived of in a world dominated by paper. Unfortunately, that means that PDF files are often not optimal for reading on the mobile devices that are now so prevalent among Mandarin field publishers.

Also, with past official Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) songbook PDF files, having to share limited display real estate with Chinese characters and musical notation 🎼 has at times forced the Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) text to be rendered in small type that can be difficult to read, especially for older people.

The Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音)+Music songbook material in this resource has been designed to be mobile-first, so it automatically adjusts itself to be optimal for reading on mobile devices of various shapes and sizes, including tablets and smartphones. A couple of the ways in which it does so are:

• Song material with musical notation 🎼 automatically loads “prezoomed” to take full advantage of the width of your device’s display, so as to render its Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) lyrics in as large a size as possible.
• In the song material with musical notation 🎼, the typeface (font) chosen for the Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) lyrics is one that is especially legible at smaller text sizes.

Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus 🔼

This Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material provides rich information about the Mandarin speech used for Kingdom songs, as represented by the text of the Mandarin Chinese “Sing Out Joyfully” book. “Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus” involves the following:

• This material is speech-first and mobile-first in design.
• The default Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) text simply and directly represents Mandarin speech, which should be our main focus.—1 Co. 14:8–11.
• Tapping/clicking on a Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) expression reveals a “flashcard” next to it showing its English meaning, Simplified character(s), Traditional character(s) (if they’re different), etc. Tapping/clicking on a “flashcard” or its Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) expression hides the “flashcard”.
  • Try it on this: Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音)
• More than one “flashcard” can be shown at a time.
• 📖 📄 📘 icons mean 📖 Reveal All, 📄 Reveal Advanced, and 📘 Reveal None re all the “flashcards” in the heading, paragraph, etc. that they are placed at the beginning of.

As the above-cited scripture helps us to understand, our purpose should not be just to get by and maintain “an appearance of godliness” in the Mandarin field. (2 Timothy 3:5) Rather, as language learners in the Mandarin field, our purpose in using material such as this resource’s Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material should be to learn to understand Mandarin speech and to learn to speak Mandarin understandably, so that we can reach the hearts of Mandarin-speaking people with Bible truth.

When we think of the Mandarin Chinese “Sing Out Joyfully” book’s lyrics, we may naturally think first of the Chinese characters used to render the text of the official versions, since the characters are what we see. However, we have been trained to be spiritual persons who see the truth beyond just what is visible to the eyes. (2 Corinthians 5:7) For those of us who sing songs using the Mandarin Chinese “Sing Out Joyfully” book, the truth is that the most important aspect of its lyrics is actually not the characters used to write them, but rather, the Mandarin speech that they show us to use when we actually sing. Yes, the vast majority of the time that we use these lyrics, it’s to help us to produce “the fruit of our lips”—speech—as we sing them out.—Hebrews 13:15.

Yes, the scripturally sound modern linguistic (language science) principle that speech is primary and writing is secondary is especially true of the singing that we do in Jehovah’s worship. The Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material in this resource accords with this important principle by focusing on Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) by default to represent the Mandarin speech represented by the lyrics of the Mandarin Chinese “Sing Out Joyfully” book, in a way that’s simple, direct, and without distraction.

When you come across a Mandarin expression in this resource’s Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material that you need to learn or be reminded about, you can just tap/click on that expression’s Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) to reveal additional information about it. Thus, besides giving primary emphasis to speech, Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material also provides the language-learning and memory-strengthening benefits of flashcards, which are used, for example, in the official JW LanguageJW Language app. Additionally, perhaps multiplicatively, this resource’s Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material integrates the benefits of flashcards into the context of the lyrics in the Mandarin Chinese “Sing Out Joyfully” book, in the style of augmented reality (AR).

Furthermore, to maximize the benefits of this integration of flashcards and context, the English translations in the “flashcards” have been carefully rendered to be context-appropriate. Thus, each Mandarin expression’s English translation doesn’t just tell you what that expression could mean in different contexts. Rather, it specifically tells you what that expression means in the particular context in which it appears. Building clear, correct understandings of contexts is especially important in Mandarin, since, probably because of over-reliance on characters, Mandarin has come to have many homophones requiring clarification by means of context. (More information on the translations can be found below.)

Compared to corresponding 3-line (Chinese characters-Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音)-English) material, Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material by default is less visually complex, and it makes better use of limited display real estate on mobile devices. However, it still provides us Mandarin learners with assistance in the two language aspects we require in order to be able to understandably and clearly sing out the lyrics of the “Sing Out Joyfully” book from our hearts:

1. The pronunciations of the Mandarin words used
   • These show us how to communicate the messages of the “Sing Out Joyfully” book’s lyrics in Mandarin.
2. The meanings of the Mandarin words used
   • These show us what is being communicated in Mandarin.

Chinese characters (both Simplified and Traditional) are also included in the “flashcards” as a concession to their continuing pervasiveness in the Chinese world. Still, it must be kept in mind that while the Chinese characters may be the traditional writing system for Mandarin, they incur unusually and unnecessarily high costs in terms of the ongoing time, attention, and effort required to learn and remember them. With their overly, perhaps self-indulgently complex visual designs, they have become for many a bewitching but burdensome distraction, when, as shown above, our focus should really be on understanding Mandarin speech and speaking Mandarin understandably. (1 Corinthians 14:8–11) Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is a simple full writing system for Mandarin that can help us to focus on and successfully develop these primarily required abilities. (There is more information on this below.)

Advantages of the Web Format 🔼

This Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) material is in web format. Web material has many advantages, including:

• Exceptionally broad hardware and software support
• Easy enlarging and automatic reflowing of the text to accommodate displays of various shapes and sizes, including those of many mobile devices
  • This is especially an advantage compared to the situation with PDF files, which have preset page sizes and line renderings baked in. As a result, PDF files are often cumbersome and difficult to read on smaller mobile devices.
• Familiarity and ease of use
  • Once this web material is loaded in a supporting web browser, no further downloading or switching to another app is required.
• Hyperlinking that is familiar and expected, and that thus will get used and benefited from
  • Taking advantage of this, links are provided for “teleporting” from the table of contents to the songs, etc., and back.
• Interactivity
  • The web format supports the use of JavaScript code to build interactive features. The showing and hiding of Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus “flashcards” in response to user taps/clicks is an example of such interactivity.
• Producibility and editability with simpler, more accessible, more mobile tools
  • At this time, Microsoft Word running on a desktop or laptop PC is needed to produce satisfactory 3-line PDF files. In contrast, this plain text-based Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus web material can be satisfactorily produced and edited with even an app running on a mobile device like an iPad.

Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is a Good, Workable Writing System On Its Own 🔼

Reading just Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) may take some getting used to if you’re accustomed to reading (or trying to read) Hànzì (Hàn·zì {Han (Chinese)} · Characters 汉字 漢字) (Chinese characters), but going by first principles of linguistics (the scientific study of language) rather than mere human traditions, it should be more than worth the effort. You should at least give yourself a chance to get used to it.

Just like it’s an established fact that the earth is round, according to modern linguistics this is also an established fact: “Speech is primary, writing is secondary and is always derivative of speech.” Yes, speech is the foundation on which writing must be built, not vice versa. (That is just a natural result of the way Jehovah made us—he gave our bodies the built-in ability to produce speech, but writing requires external aids such as pens and paper, keyboards and screens, etc.) Thus, it is very good that Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) represents Mandarin speech so straightforwardly and easily, and that it enables us to focus on speech. Yes, while Chinese characters, as beautiful and traditional as they are, demand distractingly large commitments of precious time and energy just for themselves, Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) frees and empowers us to focus on communicating the good news.

Indeed, in our ministry specifically, we definitely need to understand speech and to speak understandably much more than we need to read and write. (1 Corinthians 14:8–11) So, while many who have received traditional Mandarin language instruction have been influenced to believe that being able to read and write characters is the ultimate goal for a Mandarin language student to aspire to, actually, for us Kingdom publishers, our ultimate goal regarding Mandarin should be being able to understand and speak spoken Mandarin, so that we can preach and teach the good news effectively, from our hearts, using Mandarin speech. So, really, for us Kingdom publishers, being able to read, understand, and write Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音), which directly represents Mandarin speech, is a more relevant and important (and easy-to-achieve) goal to aspire to than being able to read, understand, and write characters, which unfortunately have become this thing on their own that is warping and obfuscating Mandarin speech rather than supporting it.

But, is Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) even really a writing system? Interestingly, the Chinese national standard Zhōngguó (Zhōng·guó Central · Nation → [Chinese] 中国 中國) Mángwén (Máng·wén Blind · Writing → [Braille] 盲文) (中国盲文/中國盲文, Chinese Braille) is basically a transliteration or conversion of Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) into Braille letters. Braille is obviously a writing system, so Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) must also be a writing system, not just a pronunciation aid.

Also, as a Sumerian proverb stated, “a scribe whose hand matches the mouth, he is indeed a scribe”. Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) can indeed be used to write anything that can be spoken in Modern Standard Mandarin, from the simplest expressions to the most advanced, complex, and deeply meaningful expressions, so it qualifies as a full writing system in that fundamental sense as well.

Really, after a bit of research into what the definition of a “writing system” is, it becomes evident that a system like Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) should naturally be considered a writing system, in spite of the efforts of worldly Chinese intellectuals to artificially and unjustly keep Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) down in order to protect and enshrine the traditional Hànzì (Hàn·zì {Han (Chinese)} · Characters 汉字 漢字) writing system that they have so much invested in.

Since Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is not just a pronunciation aid, but a full writing system, it is not “training wheels”—it’s regular wheels. On the other hand, Chinese characters are like non-round wheels—more difficult than necessary. While some may find non-round wheels “interesting”, or maybe even “beautiful”, much of the time we just need to get from point A to point B as quickly and easily as possible. We may even need to do so to save someone’s life. For example, what kind of wheels should be on an ambulance? That’s the kind of “wheels” we should be using in our life-saving work.

That Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is a full writing system for any and all Modern Standard Mandarin speech also means that, in addition to it being correct to say that “Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is Chinese” because it was developed in China by Chinese people, it is also quite correct to say that “Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is Chinese” in the sense that, even if it isn’t Hànzì (Hàn·zì {Han (Chinese)} · Characters 汉字 漢字), it is indeed written Mandarin Chinese—it’s not as if Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) was written English or French or something!

But, aren’t characters more meaningful than Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音)? There are certainly meanings and stories behind how certain characters are written, but taken as a bewitchingly complex, independent system for directly representing meanings visually, the characters can actually be a distraction or a diversion from the Mandarin words themselves, which are already a system for representing meanings through Mandarin speech sounds. Really, a Mandarin word still means what it means, no more and no less, whether it is spoken, written in characters, or written in Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音). Shakespeare said that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, and indeed, a rose would smell as sweet whether the spoken Mandarin word for it is written as “玫瑰” or as “méigui (méi·gui {fine jade} · {jade-like stone} → [rose] 玫瑰)”. Writing the word in characters does not add to its meaning, and writing it in Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) does not take away from its meaning.

If someone says that they don’t get much meaning from reading Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音), that’s not a sign that Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is not meaningful. Rather, it’s perhaps a sign that this person has become accustomed to and perhaps dependent on the way characters represent meaning visually, and it’s probably a sign that this person’s understanding of Mandarin speech needs improving, because Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is a very simple and direct representation of Mandarin speech, such that if one understands Mandarin speech, one will understand Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音), and vice versa. Furthermore, as a very simple and direct representation of Mandarin speech, Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is thus just as meaningful as Mandarin speech is, and it would be downright unscriptural to say that Mandarin speech is without meaning!—1 Corinthians 14:10.

Practically speaking, we should keep in mind that, as many in the Mandarin field have found, by investing the minimal amount of time and effort needed to learn and get used to the Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) system, we will be equipped to always be able to quickly and easily read anything in Mandarin that’s written in Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音), and we will always be able to quickly and easily write anything in Mandarin using Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音). In contrast, even those who are fairly familiar with Chinese characters will at times come across unfamiliar or forgotten characters whose meanings and pronunciations they can only guess at. Also, even those who are fairly familiar with Chinese characters will at times be completely unable to remember or figure out how to write a certain character.

But, does using Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) mean that we are failing to show proper respect for Chinese culture? Since, as mentioned above, the Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) system was developed in China by Chinese people, it is a product of Chinese culture, and it is a part of Chinese culture. So, using Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is not an imposition of Western culture—it is an application of Chinese culture! While Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) uses the Latin alphabet, it does so because the Chinese developers of Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) of their own free will purposely chose to base it on this international alphabet (it’s not just the English alphabet) so that users of Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) would benefit from its familiarity. This Chinese design decision has caused the international Latin alphabet to be adopted as part of Chinese culture. As Zhōu Ēnlái ((Zhōu {Circumference (surname)} 周 周/週) (Ēn·lái Kindness · Comes 恩来 恩來) (the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China)) (the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China) said, ‘When we adopt the Latin alphabet, in which we make necessary adjustments to suit the needs of the Chinese language, it becomes the phonetic alphabet of our language and is no longer the alphabet of ancient Latin, still less the alphabet of any foreign country.’

While those who love traditional Chinese culture may dislike such a radical innovation, it can be said that such innovations are actually a sign of positive, healthy cultural development. Another example of such a radical but positive and beneficial innovation was the West and China moving from always using Roman numerals and the Chinese characters for numbers to mostly using Arabic numerals. I’m sure just about everyone would agree that it’s a very good thing that we no longer have to deal with CMXXXVI÷III or 九百三十六÷三, because we can just work out 936÷3! Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) brings similar benefits as a writing system for Mandarin, while still being Chinese rather than Arabic, etc.

Anyway, the merely human cultures and traditions of this world that is passing away should not be the most important things to us Witnesses of Jehovah. (Mark 7:13; 1 John 2:17) The most important thing for us to consider is the truth about what really works best for our God-given work of sanctifying Jehovah’s name, preaching the good news of the Kingdom, and helping to save the lives of those who respond positively to that good news.—John 4:24; Matthew 6:9; 24:14; 1 Timothy 2:3, 4.

The truth is that, based on first principles of language science that help us to understand how Jehovah actually designed us humans to learn and use language, Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) is a good, workable writing system on its own for Modern Standard Mandarin. Not only that, but the experiences of many in the Mandarin field also provide living proof that Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) works much more quickly, easily, and effectively than Chinese characters do for helping publishers who are learning Mandarin to become effective preachers and teachers in the Mandarin field.

For a more in-depth discussion about how we in the Mandarin field should view Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音), see the article “Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Was Plan A”. Here is a quote from it:

“That there are so many different words in modern Mandarin that sound the same is not a good reason not to use Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音), any more than it is a good reason not to speak Mandarin.”

Translation 🔼

Proofreading 🔼

Proofreading is generally the production step that requires the most time and intense mental effort. However, it is necessary in order to produce the sharpest possible tools for our spiritual harvesting work, the sharpest possible weapons for our spiritual warfare.–Ecclesiastes 10:10; 2 Corinthians 10:4, 5.

The regular portions of this “Sing Out Joyfully” songbook material have been carefully rendered and proofread. Of course, they may still contain errors. If you find any, please email me to let me know.

Any partially proofread Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material is rendered with a lower-contrast grey background. More proofreading of it may be done later as time allows.

Any Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus material that has had its Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) proofread but that has not fully had its “flashcards” added and proofread is rendered with a golden-hued background. More “flashcards” may be added and proofread later as time allows.

Offline Viewing and Printing 🔼

This web resource is divided into different files and folders. These files and folders have been “zipped” into the zip file linked to below, which can be saved or downloaded and unzipped for offline use:

Sing_Out_Joyfully-Pinyin_Plus_2024-11-12.zip

To download and unzip this file on an iPad or an iPhone/iPod touch using GoodReader:

• In Safari (or whatever other web browser you’re using to view this page), tap and hold on the zip file link above, and select Copy Link (or something similar, depending on your browser) from the menu that appears. This copies the link’s URL (web address).
• Switch to GoodReader.
  • If you have a document open in Reading mode, tap anywhere on the screen to make the controls visible, then tap on the X button at the top left corner to exit Reading mode.
  • Tap on Connect (bottom toolbar).
  • Tap on Enter URL. In the dialogue box that appears, tap on Allow Paste. The URL (web address) you just copied from your web browser should then be automatically entered into the next dialogue box that appears. (If not, paste it there now.) Tap the Download button.
  • The file should get downloaded and listed on the Downloads tab. Tap on its icon or filename there to be taken to the My Documents > Downloads folder, where the file got downloaded to. If you want to move the file to another folder,
    • tap on Manage Files (bottom toolbar),
    • tap the file to select it,
    • tap the Move button,
    • then navigate to your target folder and
    • tap the Move 1 item here button or the Move here and open folder button.
    • If necessary, tap the Done button to return to the normal mode.
  • In the folder that you moved the zip file to, tap on the zip file, then tap the Unzip button in the dialogue box that appears. The files and folders inside the zip file will be extracted and placed into a folder with the same name as the zip file.
  • In the folder with the extracted files and folders, tap the index.html file to open it in GoodReader.

To download and unzip this file on an iPad or an iPhone/iPod touch using Documents:

• In Safari, tap on the zip file link above, and wait for the zip file to be downloaded.
• After the zip file has finished being downloaded, if an Open in “Documents” link/button appears, tap on it.
• If an Open in “Documents” link/button does not appear after downloading, tap on the More… link/button, then tap on the Copy to Documents icon.
• In Documents, note where the app’s dialogue box says the zip file was saved to (probably the Documents folder). If you want to, you can move it to another folder.
• If Documents has not yet unzipped the zip file, tap on the zip file. The files and folders inside the zip file will be extracted and placed into a folder with the same name as the zip file.
• In the folder with the extracted files and folders, tap the index.html file to open it in Documents.

To download and unzip this file on a PC or a Mac:

• Right-click on the zip file link above and select Save Link As..., or Save Target As..., or Download Linked File As..., or something similar depending on your browser.
• In the resulting dialogue box, select a folder to save the file to, and click the Save button or something similar to proceed with the download.
• Modern PCs and Macs generally come with software for unzipping zip files. So, to unzip the downloaded zip file, you generally just need to double-click on it.
  • Note: On some Windows computers, double-clicking on a zip file lets you view its contents while leaving them inside the zip file. In such cases, a separate step would be required to actually extract the contents of the zip file.
• From among the files and folders extracted from the zip file, double-click the index.html file to open it in your default web browser.

This Pīnyīn (Pīn·yīn {Piecing Together of} · Sounds → [Pinyin] 拼音) Plus web resource was primarily designed to be used on computing devices like smartphones and tablets, but its content can also be printed out from your web browser.

Disclaimer 🔼

This is not a publication of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. This material is primarily intended to help publishers working in the Mandarin field, so that they can more quickly become more effective at preaching and teaching the good news to Mandarin-speaking people without being unnecessarily obstructed and delayed by the complex and difficult-to-learn-and-remember Chinese characters. (Also, see the Disclaimer on the title page.)

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Enjoy using the material. May it help you to serve more effectively and joyfully in the Mandarin field.