by James » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:59 am
A fellow named Nate wrote in to ask if we have a reference that will allow the cross-reference lookup of Wade-Giles and Pinyin variations of officer names. It actually struck me as strange that I never put something like this together given our database already supports it and it is a common question asked by people who decide to read a Wade-Giles version of
Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
I took a moment out of my evening to toss a reference for this purpose together: introducing our new
Pinyin to Wade-Giles Officer Name Reference Chart. Searching isn’t perfect as only Pinyin is supported and reliable Wade-Giles support would be time consuming to add, but this alone should help to ease the process of re-learning familiar officer and character names.
Anybody interested in Wade-Giles Romanization can also learn a great deal from Lady Wu’s
Introduction to Wade-Giles Romanization. Additionally, our
Three Kingdoms Officer Encyclopedia also lists Wade-Giles names for the 2,000+ officers that have been entered.
A fellow named Nate wrote in to ask if we have a reference that will allow the cross-reference lookup of Wade-Giles and Pinyin variations of officer names. It actually struck me as strange that I never put something like this together given our database already supports it and it is a common question asked by people who decide to read a Wade-Giles version of [i]Romance of the Three Kingdoms[/i].
I took a moment out of my evening to toss a reference for this purpose together: introducing our new [url=http://kongming.net/novel/wade-giles_to_pinyin/]Pinyin to Wade-Giles Officer Name Reference Chart[/url]. Searching isn’t perfect as only Pinyin is supported and reliable Wade-Giles support would be time consuming to add, but this alone should help to ease the process of re-learning familiar officer and character names.
Anybody interested in Wade-Giles Romanization can also learn a great deal from Lady Wu’s [url=http://kongming.net/novel/wade-giles/]Introduction to Wade-Giles Romanization[/url]. Additionally, our [url=http://kongming.net/encyclopedia/]Three Kingdoms Officer Encyclopedia[/url] also lists Wade-Giles names for the 2,000+ officers that have been entered.