INITIAL LETTERS IN PINYIN FOR SHELFLISTERS
To shelflist Chinese material after pinyin conversion, it is helpful to know how the initial letters in pinyin were represented in Wade-Giles (pre-conversion) romanization. The initial letters in pinyin romanization were converted from the Wade-Giles letters listed below. If a letter does not appear on the chart below, it is the same in both pinyin and Wade-Giles (for example, syllables beginning with the letters f, l, m, n, w and y in Wade-Giles begin with those letters in pinyin also).
| INITIAL SYLLABLES |
| Pinyin |
Wade-Giles |
| b |
p |
| c |
ts` |
| ch |
ch` |
| ci |
tz`u |
| d |
t |
| g |
k |
| yi |
i |
| j |
ch |
| k |
k` |
| p |
p` |
| q |
ch` |
| r |
j |
| t |
t` |
| x |
hs |
| z |
ts |
| zh |
ch |
| zi |
tzu |
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(05/11/2001)