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A system for transcribing the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese into the Latin alphabet.

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Wade-Giles

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Wade-Giles

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A system for transcribing the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese into the Latin alphabet.

Japanese Meaning

中国語（北京方言）の発音をラテン文字で表記するための体系

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Many 20th-century Western scholars learned Wade-Giles to read older Chinese literature and historical documents.

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多くの20世紀の西洋の学者たちは、古い中国文学や歴史的文書を読むために、北京語をラテン文字に転写する方式を使うことを学んだ。

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A system for transcribing the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese into the Latin alphabet.

The pronunciation aids to Chinese names are of doubtful value. They are not phonetic, being only a slight modification of the Wade-Giles system, and become really confusing when Mandarin pronunciations are given for Cantonese or historical spellings.

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