Wade-Giles

Also known as Wade–Giles, Wade–Giles system

thumb|300px|Map of the Taiwan Strait, featuring names using Wade–Giles in Taiwan versus those using pinyin in mainland China

AI overview

Wade-Giles is an older system for writing Chinese words using the Latin alphabet, while pinyin is a newer system that became the international standard. The two systems matter because they represent different choices for how to romanize Chinese, which affects how people in different regions and countries pronounce and recognize Chinese names and places.

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Key facts

Romanization.name: Wade–Giles
Romanization.languages: Mandarin Chinese
Romanization.creator: Thomas Wade and Herbert Giles
Romanization.date: 19th century
Romanization.iso15924 note: BCP 47 variant subtag: wadegile
Romanization.engvar: us
Chinese/Chinese.child: yes
Chinese/Chinese.header: none
Chinese/Chinese.p: Wēi-Zhái Shì Pīnyīn
Chinese/Chinese.mps: Wēi Jái Shr̀ Pīnyīn
Chinese/Chinese.myr: Wēi Jái Shr̀ Pīnyīn
Chinese/Chinese.tp: Wei Jhái Shìh Pin-yin
Chinese/Chinese.gr: Uei Jair Shyh Pin'in

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Encyclopedic overview

26 sections

Contents

History
Initials and finals
Initials
Finals
Syllables that begin with a medial
System features
Consonants and initial symbols
Vowels and final symbols
Syllabic consonants
Vowel ''o''
Tones
Punctuation
Comparison with other systems
{{Anchor|Pinyin}}Pinyin
Chart
Adaptations
''Mathews''
''Shadick''
''Anderson''
Table
Gallery
See also
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

thumb|300px|Map of the Taiwan Strait, featuring names using Wade–Giles in Taiwan versus those using pinyin in mainland China

Wade–Giles is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from the system produced by Thomas Francis Wade during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert Giles's A Chinese–English Dictionary (1892).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wade-Giles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.