Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Chinese postal romanization

Index Chinese postal romanization

Postal romanization was a system of transliterating Chinese place names developed by the Imperial Post Office in the early 1900s. [1]

66 relations: Anguo, Anhui, Aspirated consonant, Beijing, Beijing dialect, Beiqiao station, Checked tone, Chengde, China Daily, Chinese language romanization in Taiwan, Chongqing, Diacritic, EFEO Chinese transcription, Fujian, Fuzhou, Glottal stop, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangzhou, Heilongjiang, Herbert Giles, Hubei, International Organization for Standardization, Jiangmen, Jiangsu, Jilin, Jinan, Jinzhou, Kaohsiung, Kinmen, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca), May Fourth Movement, Nanjing, Palatalization (sound change), Pinyin, Place names in China, Postage stamps and postal history of China, Qingdao, Qinghai, Qinhuangdao, Quanzhou, Shandong, Shanghai, Shantou, Shanxi, Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet, Suzhou, Taichung, Taipei, ..., Thomas Francis Wade, Tianjin, Tongyong Pinyin, Wade–Giles, Wensu County, William Edward Soothill, Wusong, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xinhui District, Xining, Xinjiang, Yangzhou, Yantai, Zhangzhou, Zhenjiang. Expand index (16 more) »

Anguo

Anguo, nicknamed "Medicine Capital" (药都, is a county-level city under the administration of and south of Baoding, central Hebei province, China. It has a provincially protected Temple of the God of Medicine (藥王廟) established around 100. In premodern China, Anguo was Qizhou (祁州: Qízhōu). In 1991, Anguo was changed from county into a city. The city governs 20 town-level entities in, of which the centrally placed Yaocheng is the municipal seat. The Chinese playwright Guan Hanqing was born here.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Anguo · See more »

Anhui

Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Anhui · See more »

Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Aspirated consonant · See more »

Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Beijing · See more »

Beijing dialect

The Beijing dialect, also known as Pekingese, is the prestige dialect of Mandarin spoken in the urban area of Beijing, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Beijing dialect · See more »

Beiqiao station

Beiqiao Station is a station on Line 5 of the Shanghai Metro.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Beiqiao station · See more »

Checked tone

A checked tone, commonly known by its Chinese calque entering tone, is one of four syllable types in the phonology in Middle Chinese.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Checked tone · See more »

Chengde

Chengde, previously known as Jehol or Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated northeast of Beijing.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Chengde · See more »

China Daily

China Daily is an English-language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and China Daily · See more »

Chinese language romanization in Taiwan

There are a large number of romanization systems used in Taiwan (officially the Republic of China).

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Chinese language romanization in Taiwan · See more »

Chongqing

Chongqing, formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Chongqing · See more »

Diacritic

A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Diacritic · See more »

EFEO Chinese transcription

The Chinese transcription of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) was the most used phonetic transcription of Chinese in the French speaking world until the middle of the 20th century.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and EFEO Chinese transcription · See more »

Fujian

Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Fujian · See more »

Fuzhou

Fuzhou, formerly romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Fuzhou · See more »

Glottal stop

The glottal stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Glottal stop · See more »

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Guangdong · See more »

Guangxi

Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Guangxi · See more »

Guangzhou

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Guangzhou · See more »

Heilongjiang

Heilongjiang (Wade-Giles: Heilungkiang) is a province of the People's Republic of China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Heilongjiang · See more »

Herbert Giles

Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 184513 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at Cambridge University for 35 years.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Herbert Giles · See more »

Hubei

Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Hubei · See more »

International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and International Organization for Standardization · See more »

Jiangmen

Jiangmen, formerly romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Jiangmen · See more »

Jiangsu

Jiangsu, formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Jiangsu · See more »

Jilin

Jilin, formerly romanized as Kirin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Jilin · See more »

Jinan

Jinan, formerly romanized as Tsinan, is the capital of Shandong province in Eastern China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Jinan · See more »

Jinzhou

Jinzhou is a prefecture-level city of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Jinzhou · See more »

Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung City (Hokkien POJ: Ko-hiông; Hakka: Kô-hiùng; old names: Takao, Takow, Takau) is a special municipality located in southern-western Taiwan and facing the Taiwan Strait.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Kaohsiung · See more »

Kinmen

Kinmen or Quemoy (see also "Names" section below), officially Kinmen County, is a group of islands, governed by the Republic of China (ROC), which is located just off the southeastern coast of mainland China, including Great Kinmen, Lesser Kinmen, Wuqiu and several surrounding islets.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Kinmen · See more »

Lower Yangtze Mandarin

Lower Yangtze Mandarin is one of the most divergent and least mutually-intellegible groups of Mandarin dialects, as it neighbors the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of varieties of Chinese.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Lower Yangtze Mandarin · See more »

Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca)

Mandarin was the common spoken language of administration of the Chinese empire during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) · See more »

May Fourth Movement

The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student participants in Beijing on 4 May 1919, protesting against the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong which had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and May Fourth Movement · See more »

Nanjing

Nanjing, formerly romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China and the second largest city in the East China region, with an administrative area of and a total population of 8,270,500.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Nanjing · See more »

Palatalization (sound change)

In linguistics, palatalization is a sound change that either results in a palatal or palatalized consonant or a front vowel, or is triggered by one of them.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Palatalization (sound change) · See more »

Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Pinyin · See more »

Place names in China

Place names in China primarily refers to Han Chinese names, but also to those used by China's minorities.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Place names in China · See more »

Postage stamps and postal history of China

The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Postage stamps and postal history of China · See more »

Qingdao

Qingdao (also spelled Tsingtao) is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Qingdao · See more »

Qinghai

Qinghai, formerly known in English as Kokonur, is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest of the country.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Qinghai · See more »

Qinhuangdao

Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛) is a port city on the coast of China in northeastern Hebei province.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Qinhuangdao · See more »

Quanzhou

Quanzhou, formerly known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city beside the Taiwan Strait in Fujian Province, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Quanzhou · See more »

Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Shandong · See more »

Shanghai

Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Shanghai · See more »

Shantou

Shantou, formerly romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,391,028 as of 2010 and an administrative area of.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Shantou · See more »

Shanxi

Shanxi (postal: Shansi) is a province of China, located in the North China region.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Shanxi · See more »

Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet GCMG (20 February 1835 – 20 September 1911) was a British diplomat and official in the Qing Chinese government, who served as the second Inspector-General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (IMCS) from 1863 to 1911.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet · See more »

Suzhou

Suzhou (Wu Chinese), formerly romanized as Soochow, is a major city located in southeastern Jiangsu Province of East China, about northwest of Shanghai.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Suzhou · See more »

Taichung

Taichung, officially known as Taichung City, is a special municipality located in center-western Taiwan.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Taichung · See more »

Taipei

Taipei, officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially known as the Republic of China, "ROC").

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Taipei · See more »

Thomas Francis Wade

Sir Thomas Francis Wade (25August 181831July 1895), was a British diplomat and sinologist who produced an early Chinese textbook in English, in 1867, that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Thomas Francis Wade · See more »

Tianjin

Tianjin, formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the four national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Tianjin · See more »

Tongyong Pinyin

Tongyong Pinyin was the official romanization of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan between 2002 and 2008.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Tongyong Pinyin · See more »

Wade–Giles

Wade–Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Wade–Giles · See more »

Wensu County

The Wensu (Onsu) County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Wensu County · See more »

William Edward Soothill

William Edward Soothill (1861 – 1935) was a Methodist missionary to China who later became Professor of Chinese at Oxford University and a leading British sinologist.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and William Edward Soothill · See more »

Wusong

Wusong, formerly romanized as Woosung, is a subdistrict of Baoshan in northern Shanghai.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Wusong · See more »

Xi'an

Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Xi'an · See more »

Xiamen

Xiamen, formerly romanized as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Xiamen · See more »

Xinhui District

Xinhui, formerly romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang, is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Xinhui District · See more »

Xining

Xining (Xīníng; ཟི་ལིང་། Ziling) is the capital of Qinghai province in western China, and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Xining · See more »

Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى; SASM/GNC: Xinjang Uyĝur Aptonom Rayoni; p) is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Xinjiang · See more »

Yangzhou

Yangzhou, formerly romanized as Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Yangzhou · See more »

Yantai

Yantai, formerly known as Zhifu or Chefoo, is a prefecture-level city on the Bohai Strait in northeastern Shandong Province, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Yantai · See more »

Zhangzhou

Zhangzhou, formerly romanized as Changchow, is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Zhangzhou · See more »

Zhenjiang

Zhenjiang, formerly romanized as Chenkiang, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, China.

New!!: Chinese postal romanization and Zhenjiang · See more »

Redirects here:

Chinese Postal Map Romanisation, Chinese Postal Map Romanization, Chinese Postal romanization, Chinese postal Romanisation, Chinese postal map romanization, Pinyin of Postal System, Post Office Pinyin, Post Office System Pinyin, Post office pinyin, Post office romanization, Postal Map, Postal Map Romanization, Postal Map Romanization of Chinese, Postal Map romanization, Postal Office Pinyin, Postal Pinyin, Postal Romanization, Postal Spelling System, Postal System Chinese Romanization, Postal System Pinyin, Postal System Romanization, Postal map romanization, Postal map spelling, Postal pinyin, Postal romanisation, Postal romanization, Postal system pinyin, Postal system romanization, Youzhengshi Pinyin, Yu-cheng-shih P'in-yin, Yóuzhèngshì Pinyin, Yóuzhèngshì Pīnyīn, 邮政式拼音, 郵政式拼音.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_postal_romanization

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »