Wade–Giles


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Wade–Giles/weɪdˈdʒʌɪlz/
noun a system of romanized spelling for transliterating Chinese, largely superseded by Pinyin.
– origin named after Sir T. F. Wade (1818–95) and H. A. Giles (1845–1935), professors of Chinese at Cambridge, who devised it.
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