ALALC · 2012

Chinese Romanization Table (2012)

alalc-zho-Hani-Latn-2012

Authority: alalc
Year: 2012
Source script: Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) Hani · 500
Destination script: Latin Latn · 215
Language: Chinese

ALA-LC Chinese Romanization Table, 2012 version. The 2012 table follows the principles of the Pinyin system, replacing the Wade-Giles system of earlier editions, and does not indicate tone marks (Rules of Application 1). Separation of Syllables: the romanization of each Chinese character is separated by a space. This map encodes the character readings attested by the document's own examples, output as lowercase syllables separated by spaces, and the deterministic punctuation equivalents. Transcribed from the loc.gov document's complete text layer.

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