List of Famous people with last name Youguang

Zhou Youguang

周耀平
First Name Zhou
Last Name Youguang
Born on January 13, 1906
Died on January 14, 2017 (aged 111)

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 (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.

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