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Legge transliteration uses the following consonants:

f h hs k kh k kh l m n ng p ph r s sh sz t th w y z z з зh зz

And it uses the following vowels:

a â ă e ê i î o u ui û ü

The vowel letters also occur in various vowel digraphs, including the following:

âi âo âu eh ei ih ui

Some of the more arcane features of the Legge system are: the use of h's to signal consonantal aspiration (so that what Pinyin spells "pi" and Wade-Giles spells "p'i", Legge spells as "phî"), the use of the Cyrillic/Fraktur letter "з" distinct from "z", and the use of italicized consonants distinct from their normal forms. The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Fig. ...

Comparing words in the Legge system with the same words in Wade-Giles shows that there are often minor but nonsystematic differences, which makes direct correlation of the systems difficult.

External links

• Legge transliteration of Yijing hexagram names -- alongside their Wade-Giles and Pinyin forms