Subject: Re: Help: Reference table

From: "Ned S. VanderVen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:47:58 -0400

You can find a complete table of hanyu pinyin and Wade-Giles spellings
on pp. 558-560 of "The Chinese-English Dictionary" published by

Heian International, Inc.
PO Box 1013
Union City, CA 94857

This dictionary is $14.95 in paperback, and should be available at most
good university bookstores.

The same table can also be found on pp. 873-879 of "An Everyday
Chinese-English Dictionary" published (at $12.95) by Hippocrene Books,
Inc., 171 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016

I do not know off-hand of any corresponding table for hanyu pinyin and
the Yale system, but here is a conversion table for all the differences

INITIALS    Pinyin    Yale
            c         ts
            (ch = ch)
            q         ch (before i or y)
            x         s (before y)
            z         dz
            zh        j (except before i or y)

MEDIALS    Pinyin    Yale
           -i-       -y-
           -u-       -w-

FINALS    Pinyin     Yale
          ao         au
          iu         you
          o          wo        Ex. Pinyin bo = Yale bwo
          ong        ung
          ui         wei
          un         wun

FULL SYLLABLES    Pinyin            Yale
                  ci                tsz
                  ju                jyu
                  jun               jyun
                  lu (u umlaut)     lyu
                  nu (u umlaut)     nyu
                  nue (u umlaut)    nywe
                  qu                chyu
                  quan              chywan
                  que               chywe
                  ri                r
                  shi               shr
                  si                sz
                  xu                syu
                  xuan              sywan
                  xue               sywe
                  xun               syun
                  zhi               jr
                  zi                dz

This table is taken from "Reading and Writing Chinese" by William
McNaughton, Charles E. Tuttle Co, Rutland, Vermont.

Ned VanderVen
Physics Dept.
Carnegie Mellon University