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    WadeGiles (/ˌweɪd ˈdʒaɪlz/ WAYD JYLZ) is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade, during...
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  • actress Chan Tien Ghee (曾長義), Malaysian businessman Chan is a Mandarin WadeGiles romanisation (often used in Taiwan) of the surname spelled in pinyin as...
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  • the Latin script, used in Polish, Kashubian and Hungarian, and in the WadeGiles system of Romanization of Chinese, as well as the Hong Kong official romanization...
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  • This WadeGiles table is a complete listing of all WadeGiles syllables used in Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns)...
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  • systems most commonly used in English-speaking countries: Pinyin and WadeGiles. It contains every syllable found in Ilya Oshanin's [ru] Great Chinese–Russian...
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    texts, the tone transcriptions in both pinyin and WadeGiles are often left out for simplicity; WadeGiles's extensive use of apostrophes is also usually omitted...
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  • proliferation of proposed schemes. The WadeGiles system was produced by Thomas Wade in 1859, and further improved by Herbert Giles, presented in the 1892 Chinese–English...
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    including Zhou Youguang, in the 1950s. Other well-known systems include WadeGiles (Beijing Mandarin) and Yale romanization (Beijing Mandarin and Cantonese)...
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    Lionel Giles. In 1897 Herbert Giles became only the second professor of Chinese language appointed at the University of Cambridge, succeeding Thomas Wade. At...
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    amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892. He was the first professor of Chinese...
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