Wade-Gilesn.

Brit.

/ˌweɪdˈdʒʌɪlz/, U.S.

/ˌweɪdˈdʒaɪlz/

Etymology: < the names of Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95), diplomatist and first Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge, and Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), Wade's successor at Cambridge.

Used attributively and absol. to designate a system for the romanization of Chinese script devised by Wade, and subsequently modified by Giles. (Now widely superseded by Pinyin n.) Also elliptical as Wade.

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society > communication > writing > manner of writing > transliteration > [noun] > into Roman alphabet > system of

romaji1885

Hepburn system1937

Wade-Giles1943

1871 G. C. Stent Chinese & Eng. Vocab. p. vi The tones are also according to Mr. Wade's system.]

1943 Y. R. Chao in Mathews's Chinese-Eng. Dict. (1945) p. ix Now that the standard has come back to the pronunciation of Peiping, we can almost use the unmodified Wade's Syllabary or the more widely used Wade-Giles system.

1943 Y. R. Chao in Mathews's Chinese-Eng. Dict. (1945) p. ix In Chauncey Goodrich's Pocket Dictionary, the syllables ko k'o, ho and o of Wade-Giles are given as kê, k'ê, hê, and ê.

1944 Chang & Maxwell Conc. Eng.-Chinese Dict. 10 People have become accustomed to the Wade form of spelling.

1947 C. F. Hockett in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 67 256/2 The numbering /¹/ through /⁴/ is as in Wade-Giles Romanization.

1950 J. De Francis Nationalism & Lang. Reform in China xii. 200 Those who have learned Wade as their first transcription of Chinese case are annoyed at the French use of another system.

1961 Amer. Speech 36 190 The Wade-Giles system of romanization of the Peking dialect will be followed.

1966 Guardian 29 Nov. 8/2 The Chinese system of romanization will certainly displace Wade-Giles eventually.

1971 R. Newnham About Chinese 172 Wade-Giles is the oldest and most widely used of all current romanizations, and its chief merit lies in that wide use.

1979 Time 2 Apr. 15/2 The changeover was started by Peking (um, er, Beijing) on Jan. 1, when the government of Zhongguo (otherwise known as China) decreed that in all its foreign-language publications Pinyin would replace the traditional Wade-Giles system of romanization.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wade-giles
释义	Wade-Gilesn. Brit. /ˌweɪdˈdʒʌɪlz/, U.S. /ˌweɪdˈdʒaɪlz/ Etymology: < the names of Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95), diplomatist and first Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge, and Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), Wade's successor at Cambridge. Used attributively and absol. to designate a system for the romanization of Chinese script devised by Wade, and subsequently modified by Giles. (Now widely superseded by Pinyin n.) Also elliptical as Wade. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > transliteration > [noun] > into Roman alphabet > system of romaji1885 Hepburn system1937 Wade-Giles1943 1871 G. C. Stent Chinese & Eng. Vocab. p. vi The tones are also according to Mr. Wade's system.] 1943 Y. R. Chao in Mathews's Chinese-Eng. Dict. (1945) p. ix Now that the standard has come back to the pronunciation of Peiping, we can almost use the unmodified Wade's Syllabary or the more widely used Wade-Giles system. 1943 Y. R. Chao in Mathews's Chinese-Eng. Dict. (1945) p. ix In Chauncey Goodrich's Pocket Dictionary, the syllables ko k'o, ho and o of Wade-Giles are given as kê, k'ê, hê, and ê. 1944 Chang & Maxwell Conc. Eng.-Chinese Dict. 10 People have become accustomed to the Wade form of spelling. 1947 C. F. Hockett in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 67 256/2 The numbering /¹/ through /⁴/ is as in Wade-Giles Romanization. 1950 J. De Francis Nationalism & Lang. Reform in China xii. 200 Those who have learned Wade as their first transcription of Chinese case are annoyed at the French use of another system. 1961 Amer. Speech 36 190 The Wade-Giles system of romanization of the Peking dialect will be followed. 1966 Guardian 29 Nov. 8/2 The Chinese system of romanization will certainly displace Wade-Giles eventually. 1971 R. Newnham About Chinese 172 Wade-Giles is the oldest and most widely used of all current romanizations, and its chief merit lies in that wide use. 1979 Time 2 Apr. 15/2 The changeover was started by Peking (um, er, Beijing) on Jan. 1, when the government of Zhongguo (otherwise known as China) decreed that in all its foreign-language publications Pinyin would replace the traditional Wade-Giles system of romanization. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1943
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