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Peking Syllabary

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The Peking Syllabary is a work by Sir Thomas Francis Wade, a British diplomat and Sinologist. Published in 1859, it formed the basis for the Wade-Giles system of romanizing the Chinese language. This system was widely used in the West and in China for many years, even after the official introduction of Pinyin in 1958. A syllabary is a set of written symbols representing the syllables of a language. Wade's work was instrumental in making Chinese pronunciation more accessible to Westerners.1234

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