Thomas Wade

For the linguist of the same name, see Thomas Francis Wade Thomas Wade (1805 – 19 September 1875) was an English poet and dramatist.Wade a.k.a Wade Lavender by his early readers was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk. He early went to London, where he began to publish verse of considerable merit under the inspiration of Byron, Keats and especially Shelley. He wrote some plays that were produced on the London stage with a certain measure of success, owing more perhaps to the acting of Charles and Fanny Kemble than to the merits of the dramatist.
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Thomas Francis Wade (* 25. August 1818 in London; † 31. Juli 1895 in Cambridge) war ein bedeutender britischer Sinologe.Er war Assistent von Lord Elgin und 1873/1874 britischer Gesandter im Kaiserreich China. 1888 wurde Wade Professor für Sinologie an der Universität Cambridge. Dort entwickelte er seine Umschrift für Chinesisch, die später von seinem Nachfolger Herbert Giles verfeinert wurde und heute unter dem Namen Wade-Giles bekannt ist.
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Sir Thomas Francis Wade, född den 25 augusti 1818 i London, avliden 31 juli 1895 i Cambridge, brittisk diplomat och sinolog. Även om Wade för sin samtid var mest känd för sin diplomatiska verksamhet i Kina, är han idag mest ihågkommen som upphovsman till det kinesiska romaniseringssystemet Wade-Giles.
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Sir Thomas Francis Wade (født 25. august 1818 i London i Storbritannia, død 31. juli 1895 i Cambridge) var en britisk diplomat og sinolog. Han er mest kjent for å ha lagt grunnlaget for det romaniseringssystemet av kinesisk som nå går under navnet Wade-Giles.
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In the middle of the 19:th century Sir Thomas Wade introduced a system of transcribing Chinese characters with Latin/Roman characters. Professor Herbert Allen Giles published a modification of the same system in 1912. The system uses Latin/Roman letters for sounds rather similar to the actual letters - which is not always the case with Pinyin. Aspirations are marked with apostrophes. If marked, the tones are indicated with superscript numbers.

This system was, for many years, the most widely used to romanise Mandarin Chinese. People in the west are also still very familiar with transliterations written with this system (e.g. by rather saying "Peking" and "Mao Tze-Tung", that in Pinyin would be written as "Beijing" and "Mao Zedong"), even if Pinyin often is the recommended system to be used. The sytem is used in Taiwan for transliterating place names, street names and people's names. It also occasionally appear in Western publications (especially older works).

Enter the romanisation for for a syllable in Mandarin Chinese according to Pinyin or Wade-Giles, and this glossary will give you the corresponding transliteration according to other systems!

Further reading: aspiration, Bopomofo, Chinese phonetics, hanzi, Pinyin, tones, Zhuyin