Wade-Giles
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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
Article
26 sectionsContents
- 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).