École française d'Extrême-Orient

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Chinese language romanization

For Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin (ISO official)
EFEO
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Spelling conventions
Latinxua Sin Wenz
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II
Chinese Postal Map Romanization
Tongyong Pinyin
Wade-Giles
Yale
Legge romanization
Comparison chart

Cantonese

For Standard Cantonese
Guangdong Romanization
Hong Kong Government
Jyutping
Meyer-Wempe
Sidney Lau
S. L. Wong (romanisation)
Standard Cantonese Pinyin
Standard Romanization
Yale

Wu
Long-short (romanization)

Min Nan
For Taiwanese, Xiamen, and related
Pe̍h-oē-jī
For Hainanese
Hainanhua Pinyin Fang'an
For Teochew
Peng'im

Min Dong

For Fuzhou dialect
Bàng-uâ-cê

Hakka

For Moiyan dialect
Kejiahua Pinyin Fang'an
For Siyen dialect
Phak-fa-sṳ

See also:
General Chinese (Chao Yuenren)
Cyrillization
Xiao'erjing
Zhuyin
Romanisation in Singapore

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The École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) is a French institute dedicated to the study of Asian societies. Translated into English, it approximately means the French School of the Far East. It was founded in 1900 to study the civilization of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in what was then French Indochina. Its headquarters are now in Paris. Its main fields of research are archaeology and the study of modern Asian societies.

1 EFEO romanization system
2 The Centers of the École
3 The Directors
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] EFEO romanization system

During the 19th century, a romanization system for Mandarin was developed by the EFEO. It shares a few similarities with Wade-Giles and Hanyu Pinyin. In modern times, it has been superseded by Hanyu Pinyin.

The differences between the three romanization systems are shown in the following table:

IPA	EFEO	WG	Pinyin
p	p	p	b
pʰ	p'	p'	p
t	t	t	d
tʰ	t'	t'	t
k	k	k	g
kʰ	k'	k'	k
ts	ts	ts	z
tsʰ	ts'	ts'	c
tʂ	tch	ch	zh
tʂʰ	tch'	ch'	ch
tɕ	k/ts	ch	j
tɕʰ	k'/ts'	ch'	q
ɕ	s/h	hs	x
w	ou/w	w	w
j	i/y	y	y
ɤ	ö/é	o/ê	e
ər	eul	êrh	er
z̩	eu	û	i
i	e	ih	i
y	u	ü	ü/u
u	ou	u	u
ən	en	ên	en
ɤŋ	eng	êng	eng
iɛ	ie	ieh	ie
iɤʊ	ieou/iou	iu	iu
iɛn	ien	ien	ian
uo	ouo	o/uo	o/uo
uaɪ	ouai	uai	uai
ueɪ	ouei	ui	ui
uan	ouan	uan	uan
uən	ouen	un	un
yɛ	iue	üeh	üe/ue
yɛn	iuen	üan	üan/uan
yn	iun	ün	ün/un
yʊŋ	ioung	iung	iong