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Jackie Chan, Actor: Ngo si seoi. Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and best known film star, Jackie Chan endured many years of long, hard work and multiple injuries to establish …
FIRST TONE SECOND TONE THIRD TONE FOURTH TONE e. g. mā: e. g. má: e. g. mă: e. g. mà: (= mother) (= hemp) (= horse) (= to scold) Comparative tables INITIALS Hanyu Pinyin Wade Giles Tongyong MPS GR b p b ㄅ b c ts' c ㄘ ts ch ch' ch ㄔ ch d t d ㄉ d f f f ㄈ f g k g ㄍ g h h h ㄏ h j ch/ts j ㄐ j k k' k ㄎ k l ...
1 The phonetic transcription chart (Basic) Finals Ini- a o e ê ai ei ao ou an en ang eng er yi wu yu b- ba bo bai bei bao ban ben bang beng bi bu p- pa po pai pei pao pou pan pen pang peng pi pu m- ma mo me mai mei mao mou man men mang meng mi mu f- fa fo fei fou fan fen fang feng fu
Jackie Chan, Actor: Ngo si seoi. Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and best known film star, Jackie Chan endured many years of long, hard work and multiple injuries to establish international success after his start in Hong Kong's manic martial arts cinema industry. …
Chinese languages - Chinese languages - Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin): The pronunciation of Modern Standard Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect, which is of the Northern, or Mandarin, type. It employs about 1,300 different syllables. There are 22 initial consonants, including stops (made with momentary, complete closure in the vocal tract), affricates (beginning as stops but ending ...
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Pinyin - Wade/Giles chang ch'ang die tieh A chao ch'ao ding ting a a che ch'ê diu tiu ai ai chen ch'ên dong tung an an cheng ch'êng dou tou ang ang chi ch'ih du tu ao ao chong ch'ung duan tuan chou ch'ou dui tui B chu ch'u dun tun ba pa chuai ch'uai duo to bai pai chuan ch'uan ban pan chuang ch'uang E bang pang chui ch'ui e e bao pao chun ch'un en en bei pei chuo ...
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Wade-Giles romanization, system of romanizing the modern Chinese written language, originally devised to simplify Chinese-language characters for the Western world.Initiated by Sir Thomas Francis Wade, the system was modified by the University of Cambridge professor Herbert Allen Giles in his Chinese-English Dictionary (1912). With Giles's syllabic changes, Wade-Giles became the preferred ...