Chinese

Status: Official Style Guideline

Han Script

Chinese characters, also known as Han characters, have no capitalization.

Latin Script

Chinese releases may be transliterated into Latin script, usually as Pseudo-Releases. While there are many romanization systems for Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin is the most common in MusicBrainz. In Hanyu Pinyin, only the first letter of a sentence and proper nouns should be capitalized. 1

Examples:

• Bā dù kōngjiān (Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of 八度空間)

• Wáng Fēi (Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of 王菲)

Multiple Languages

When foreign languages are mixed with Chinese in release or track titles they should be capitalized according to the Capitalization Standard of that language. 2

Examples:

• I Love You 無望

• 親愛的Jazz

• Rock’n Roll的Style

Notes

1

More detailed writing rules can be found in Basic Rules of Hanyu Pinyin Orthography.

2

Whether or not the Chinese and non-Chinese part of the title should be separated by a space depends on the grammar and meaning of the title as a whole and is not covered by this guideline.