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In the Wade – Giles system of romanization, the honorific name is rendered as " K ' ung Fu-tzu ".
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The root Chinese word 道 " way, path " is romanized tao in the older Wade – Giles system and dào in the modern Pinyin system.
Compare these transcriptions of Chinese 道: Wade – Giles tao or tao < sup > 4 </ sup > ( marking 4th tone ), Legge romanization tâo, Latinxua Sin Wenz dau, Yale Romanization dàu, Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II dau, Hanyu Pinyin dào, Tongyong Pinyin daˋo, Gwoyeu Romatzyh or National Romanization daw, Zhuyin fuhao ㄉㄠ, and Cyrillic Palliday system дао.
Some systems, like Wade – Giles tao 道 and t ' ao 桃, introduce a special symbol for aspiration ; others, like Pinyin dao 道 and tao 桃, use " d " and " t ".
An inherent problem with the arcane Wade – Giles use of apostrophes to differentiate aspiration is that many English readers do not understand it, which has resulted in the frequent mispronunciation of Taoism as instead of.
Alan Watts ( 1975: xix ) explains using Wade – Giles " in spite of its defects " but writes: " No uninitiated English-speaking person could guess how to pronounce it, and I have even thought, in a jocularly malicious state of mind, that Professors Wade and Giles invented it so as to erect a barrier between profane and illiterate people and true scholars.
The Wade – Giles rendition kung-ho, on the other hand, tends to be pronounced ( the OED gives " kung-hou " ).
A commonly heard example is the Yijing " Book of Changes " which, owing to Wade – Giles " I Ching ", is usually cacologized as taking yi ' change ; easy ' in false analogy ( ego?
In most cases, Pinyin romanization more accurately represents Chinese pronunciations than Wade – Giles ; English speakers would read the martial art " Tai Ji Quan " closer to tàijíquán ' great ultimate fist ' than " T ' ai Chi Ch ' üan.
More generations of English speakers have learned about China through Wade – Giles ( proposed in 1859, revised in 1892 ) than through Pinyin ( approved in 1958, adopted in 1979 ).
Second, libraries have independent concerns about revising legacy Wade – Giles catalogs to contemporary pinyin.
After the Library of Congress converted to pinyin in 1997, librarian Jiajian Hu ( 1999: 250 – 1 ) listed three reasons why they deemed Wade – Giles unsatisfactory and added four more.
* Pinyin has more access points than Wade – Giles for online retrieval.
The Wade – Giles romanization " Tao Te Ching " dates back to early English transliterations in the late 19th century ; its influence can be seen in words and phrases that have become well-established in English.
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Wade and Giles
After control of Taiwan was handed to the Republic of China in 1945, the official romanization of the city name came to be " Kao-hsiung ", based on the Wade – Giles romanization of the Mandarin reading of the kanji name.
The root Chinese word " way, path " is romanized tao in the older Wade – Giles system and dào in the modern Pinyin system.
Within the context of traditional Chinese philosophy and religion, Tao is a metaphysical concept originating with Laozi that gave rise to a religion ( Wade – Giles, Tao Chiao ; Pinyin, Daojiao ) and philosophy ( Wade – Giles, Tao chia ; Pinyin, Daojia ) referred to in English with the single term Taoism.
Since 1982, when the International Organization for Standardization adopted Pinyin as the standard romanization of Chinese, many Western languages have changed from spelling this loanword dao in national systems ( e. g., French EFEO Chinese transcription and English Wade – Giles ) to dao in Pinyin.
Wade – Giles (; ; Wade – Giles: Wei < sup > 2 </ sup >- Shi < sup > 4 </ sup > P ' in < sup > 1 </ sup >- yin < sup > 1 </ sup >), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language.
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It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century ( ; Wade – Giles: Wei < sup > 1 </ sup >- t ' o < sup > 3 </ sup >- ma < sup > 3 </ sup > P ' in < sup > 1 </ sup >- yin < sup > 1 </ sup >), and was given completed form with Herbert Giles ' Chinese – English dictionary of 1892.
Wade – Giles was a common system of transcription in the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century, used in several standard reference books and in all books about China published in western countries before 1979.
The Wade – Giles system was designed to transcribe Chinese terms, for Chinese specialists.
A common feature of the Wade – Giles system is the representation of the unaspirated-aspirated stop consonant pairs using apostrophes: p, p < nowiki >'</ nowiki >, t, t < nowiki >'</ nowiki >, k, k < nowiki >'</ nowiki >, ch, ch < nowiki >'</ nowiki >.
Similarly, many Taiwanese and historic names still employ the older Wade – Giles system.
In Wade – Giles, 毛泽东 is written Mao Tse-tung, as the system hyphenates names between the characters.
The system was based on Wade – Giles for postal purposes, especially for placenames in the official postal atlas, letters and stamps.
It was written by Tim Gilberts, Graeme Yeandle and Phil Wade, based on Yeandle's earlier system called The Quill.
) Thus, for example, the Jurchen name of the first Jin emperor is written in Chinese as 完颜阿骨打, and appears in English scholarship as Wanyan Aguda ( using Pinyin ) or Wan-yen A-ku-ta ( using the Wade – Giles system ).
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Wade and romanization
Others prefer pinyin-based Daoism because of growing acceptance internationally of Hanyu Pinyin as the standard romanization for Chinese, as reflected in other recent spelling changes such as the pinyin Beijing that replaced the Wade Pei-ching or Chinese Postal Map Romanization Peking.
However, the use of apostrophes preserves b, d, g, and j for the romanization of Chinese languages containing voiced consonants, such as Shanghainese ( which has a full set of voiced consonants ) and Min Nan ( Hō-ló-oē ) whose century-old Pe ̍ h-ōe-jī ( POJ, often called Missionary Romanization ) is similar to Wade – Giles.
POJ, Legge romanization, Simplified Wade, and EFEO Chinese transcription use the letter h instead of an apostrophe to indicate aspiration ( this is similar to the superscript used in IPA ).
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