Wade System of Romanization - Wade System of Romanization

Japanese: ウェード式ローマ字表記法 - うぇーどしきろーまじひょうきほう
Wade System of Romanization - Wade System of Romanization

…His book, “Gouyan Ji Ni Shu” (1867), is famous as a Chinese textbook. The Wade System of Romanization, which he invented, was widely used in the West, especially in English-speaking countries, but in recent years it has been replaced by phonetic notation (pinyin). In Japan, it was used until the early 1950s, thanks to Inoue Sui’s “Inoue Chinese Dictionary.” …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the Wade Gile system is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その著《語言自邇集》(1867)は,中国語教科書として有名。彼の考案したウェード式ローマ字表記法は,欧米ことに英語圏でよく使われたが,近年,音(ピンイン)にとって代わられつつある。日本では井上翠《井上中国語辞典》によって,昭和30年代のはじめごろまで使われた。…

※「ウェード式ローマ字表記法」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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