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General Chinese Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... In linguistics, romanization (or Latinization, also spelled romanisation or Latinisation) is the representation of a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... General Chinese (GC) is a phonetic system invented by Yuen Ren Chao to represent the pronunciations of all major Chinese dialects. ...

Mandarin Mandarin, or Beifanghua (Chinese: åŒ—æ–¹è©±; Pinyin: BÄ›ifÄnghuÃ ; literally Northern Dialect(s)), or Guanhua (Traditional Chinese: å®˜è©±; Simplified Chinese: å®˜è¯; Pinyin: GuÄnhuÃ ; literally official speech) is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. ...

For Standard Mandarin
EFEO
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Hanyu Pinyin
Latinxua Sinwenz
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II
Chinese Postal Map Romanization
Tongyong Pinyin
Wade-Giles
Yale Standard Mandarin is the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Singapore. ... The Ã‰cole franÃ§aise dExtrÃªme-Orient (EFEO) is a French institute dedicated to the study of Asian societies. ... Gwoyeu Romatzyh (Simplified Chinese: å›½è¯ç½—é©¬å—; Traditional Chinese: åœ‹èªžç¾…é¦¬å—; Pinyin: GuÃ³yÇ” LuÃ³mÇŽzÃ¬), abbreviated GR, is a romanization (formerly used officially in the Republic of China) with complex spelling rules which allow for tonal distinctions (unlike most other Romanizations, which require additional diacritics or numerals). ... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell and yin means sound. The most common variant of pinyin in use is called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: HÃ nyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme... Latinxua Sinwenz (拉丁化新文字; also known as Sin Wenz, Latinxua Sinwenz, Zhongguo Latinxua Sin Wenz, Beifangxua Latinxua Sin Wenz or Latinxua) is a little-used romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. ... Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II (國語注音符號第二式), abbreviated MPS II, is a romanization system formerly used in the Republic of China (Taiwan). ... Tongyong Pinyin (Chinese: ; pinyin: TÅngyÃ²ng pÄ«nyÄ«n; literally Universal/General Usage Sound-combining) is the current official romanization of the Chinese language adopted by the national government (although not all local governments) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2002. ... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... The Yale romanizations are four systems created during World War II for use by United States military personnel. ...

See also:
Cyrillization
Xiao'erjing
Zhuyin
Romanisation in Singapore Cyrillization of Chinese from Pinyin It is known as the Palladiy system and is the official Cyrillization of Chinese language in Russia. ... A Chinese-Arabic-Xiaoerjing dictionary from the early days of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Zhuyin Fuhao (Traditional Chinese: æ³¨éŸ³ç¬¦è™Ÿ; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chu-yin fu-hao), or Symbols for Annotating Sounds, often abbreviated as Zhuyin, or known as Bopomofo (ã„…ã„†ã„‡ã„ˆ) after the first four letters of this Chinese phonemic alphabet (bo po mo fo), is the national phonetic system of the Republic of China (Taiwan... The romanisation of the Chinese language in Singapore is not dictated by a single policy, nor is policy implimentation consistent, as the local Chinese community is composed of a myriad of dialect groups. ...

Cantonese Cantonese (Traditional Chinese: ç²µèªž; Simplified Chinese: ç²¤è¯]], Cantonese: Yuet6yue5; Mandarin pinyin: YuÃ¨yÇ”, lit. ...

For Standard Cantonese
Canton
Hong Kong Government
Jyutping
Meyer-Wempe
Sidney Lau
S. L. Wong (romanisation)
Standard Cantonese Pinyin
Standard Romanization
Yale Standard Cantonese is a variant, and is generally considered the prestige dialect of Cantonese Chinese. ... Guangdong Romanization refers to the four romanization schemes published by the Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960 for transliterating the Standard Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, and Hainanese spoken varieties of Chinese. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Jyutping (Traditional Chinese: ç²µæ‹¼; Simplified Chinese: ç²¤æ‹¼; pinyin: yuÃ¨pÄ«n; Yale: yuhtpÄ«ng; Jyutping: jyut6ping3; sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ... The Meyer-Wempe romanisation system was developed by two Catholic missionaries in Hong Kong, Bernhard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe, during the 1920s and 1930s. ... Sidney Lau is a system of romanisation for Standard Cantonese, developed by Sidney Lau for teaching Cantonese. ... Wong Shik Ling (also known as S. L. Wong) published a romanisation scheme accompanying a set of phonetic symbol for Standard Cantonese based on International Phonetics Alphabet (IPA) in the book A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton. ... Standard Cantonese Pinyin is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Yu Bingzhao (ch. ... Standard Romanization is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by Christian missionaries in South China in 1888. ... The Yale romanizations are four systems created during World War II for use by United States military personnel. ...

Wu Wu (吳方言 pinyin wú fāng yán; 吳語 pinyin wú yǔ) is one of the major divisions of the Chinese language. ...

Min Nan
For Min Nan dialects in Fujian and Taiwan
Pe̍h-oē-jī
For Hainanese
Hainanhua Pinyin Fang'an
For Teochew
Peng'im Mǐn N n (Chinese: 閩南語), also spelt as Minnan or Min-nan; native name B ; literally means Southern Min or Southern Fujian and refers to the local language/dialect of southern Fujian province, China. ... (Chinese: ç¦å»º; Pinyin: FÃºjiÃ n; Wade-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal System Pinyin: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan Hok-kiÃ n) is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China. ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Hainanese is a dialect of the Min Nan group spoken in the southern Chinese province of Hainan. ... Guangdong Romanization refers to the four romanization schemes published by the Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960 for transliterating the Standard Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, and Hainanese spoken varieties of Chinese. ... The Teochew dialect (Guangdong romanization: Dio7 Ziu1; Missionary romanization: Tiô-chiu-oē, Chinese:潮州话, Hanyu Pinyin: Cháozhōuhuà, Teochiu or Tiuchiu), is a Chinese language and dialect of Minnan spoken in a region of eastern Guangdong referred to as Chaoshan. ... Guangdong Romanization refers to the four romanization schemes published by the Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960 for transliterating the Standard Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, and Hainanese spoken varieties of Chinese. ...

Min Dong Min Dong Language (or Eastern Min Language, Chinese: é–©æ±èªž, SLC: Má»‰ng TÃ²yng ngá»¹) is the language mainly spoken in the eastern part of Fujian Province (Chinese: ç¦å»º, SLC: Huk KyÅng). ...

For Fuzhou dialect
Bàng-uâ-cê Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Because of technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...

Hakka Hakka (Simplified Chinese: å®¢å®¶è¯, Traditional Chinese: å®¢å®¶è©±, Hakka: Hak-ka-fa/-va, pinyin: KÃ¨jiÄhuÃ ) is a Chinese dialect/language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka ethnic group and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world. ...

For Moiyan dialect
Kejiahua Pinyin Fang'an
For Siyen dialect
Phak-fa-sṳ Meixian (梅縣; Hakka: Moi-yen or Moi-yan) is a county in north eastern Guangdong province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Guangdong Romanization refers to the four romanization schemes published by the Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960 for transliterating the Standard Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, and Hainanese spoken varieties of Chinese. ... Hakka (Simplified Chinese: å®¢å®¶è¯, Traditional Chinese: å®¢å®¶è©±, Hakka: Hak-ka-fa/-va, pinyin: KÃ¨jiÄhuÃ ) is a Chinese dialect/language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka ethnic group and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world. ... Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ...

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Chinese Postal Map Romanization (Traditional Chinese: 郵政式拼音; Pinyin: Yóuzhèngshì Pīnyīn) refers to the system of romanization for Chinese place names which came into use in the late Qing dynasty and was officially sanctioned by the Imperial Postal Joint-Session Conference (帝國郵電聯席會議), which was held in Shanghai in the spring of 1906. Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell and yin means sound. The most common variant of pinyin in use is called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: , Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: HÃ nyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme... The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: 清朝; pinyin: qīng cháo; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories of... Shanghai (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Shanghainese: ), stuated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the Peoples Republic of China. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

The system was based on Wade-Giles for postal purposes, especially for placenames on letters and stamps. It uses some already common European names of Chinese places that override the Wade-Giles system, and incorporate some dialectal pronunciations. Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... A British pillar box. ... In geography and cartography, a toponym is a place name, a geographical name, a proper name of locality, region, or some other part of Earths surface or its natural or artificial feature. ... Vintage German letter balance for home use Look up letter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A stamp is a distinctive mark or impression made upon an object, for instance those made on a piece of paper and used to indicate the prepayment of a fee or tax. ... World map showing Europe Political map (neighboring countries in Asia and Africa also shown) Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... Spoken Chinese The Chinese spoken language(s) comprise(s) many regional variants. ...

See also: Romanization A diacritical mark or diacritic, sometimes called an accent mark, is a mark added to a letter to alter a words pronunciation (i. ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: Běijīng; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Tianjin (Chinese: 天津; pinyin: tiān jīn; Postal System Pinyin: Tientsin) is a harbour municipality in China on the Hai He River (from Beijing) and Bohai Gulf of the Yellow Sea (Pacific Ocean). ... Jinan (Simplified Chinese: 济南; Traditional Chinese: 濟南; pinyin: Jìnán; Wade-Giles: Chi-nan) is the capital and a sub-provincial city of Shandong province in China. ... Anguo (安国; pinyin: Ānguó), nicknamed Medicine Capital (藥都), is a county-level city in the regional city of Baoding, central Hebei Province, China, south of Beijing. ... For the city in Hebei provonce, see Jinzhou, Hebei. ... China, and should not be confused with the former Kwantung Leased Territory in north-eastern China. ... Guangxi (Zhuang: Gvangjsih; old orthography: ; Simplified Chinese: å¹¿è¥¿; Traditional Chinese: å»£è¥¿; Pinyin: GuÇŽngxÄ«; Wade-Giles: Kuang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangsi), full name Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Zhuang: Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih; old orthography: ; Simplified Chinese: å¹¿è¥¿å£®æ—è‡ªæ²»åŒº; Traditional Chinese: å»£è¥¿å£¯æ—è‡ªæ²»å€; Pinyin: GuÇŽngxÄ« ZhuÃ ngzÃº ZÃ¬zhÃ¬qÅ«) is a Zhuang autonomous region of... (Chinese: ç¦å»º; Pinyin: FÃºjiÃ n; Wade-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal System Pinyin: Fukien, Foukien; local transliteration Hokkien from Min Nan Hok-kiÃ n) is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China. ... Hakka (Simplified Chinese: å®¢å®¶è¯, Traditional Chinese: å®¢å®¶è©±, Hakka: Hak-ka-fa/-va, pinyin: KÃ¨jiÄhuÃ ) is a Chinese dialect/language spoken predominantly in southern China by the Hakka ethnic group and descendants in diaspora throughout East and Southeast Asia and around the world. ... Cantonese (Traditional Chinese: ç²µèªž; Simplified Chinese: ç²¤è¯]], Cantonese: Yuet6yue5; Mandarin pinyin: YuÃ¨yÇ”, lit. ... Min (閩方言 in pinyin: min3 fang1 yan2) is a general term for a group of dialects of the Chinese language spoken in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian as well as by migrants from this province in Guangdong (around Chaozhou-Swatou, and Leizhou peninsula), Hainan, three counties in... Xiamen (Simplified Chinese: 厦门; Traditional Chinese: 廈門; pinyin: Xiàmén; Wade_Giles: Hsiamen) is a coastal sub_provincial city in Fujian Province, southern China. ... The historic quarter of Shantou, which features both Western and Chinese architecture Shantou (Simplified Chinese: æ±•å¤´; Traditional Chinese: æ±•é ; Hanyu Pinyin: ; POJ: SÃ²aâ¿-thau; also seen as SwÃ¡tÅw or SuÃ¡tao) is a city of 784,000 in coastal eastern Guangdong Province, China, metropolitan area 4,721,117 (calculation... Quemoy, Kinmen, or Chinmen (金門, pinyin: Jīnmén, POJ: Kim-mn̂g) (pop. ... Treaty ports were port cities in China, Japan and Korea opened to foreign trade by the so-called Unequal Treaties, i. ... There are multiple Cantons in China Canton City : Guangzhou Canton Province : Guangdong This is a disambiguation page â€” a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... In linguistics, romanization (or Latinization, also spelled romanisation or Latinisation) is the representation of a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system. ...