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I have a question, it might be stupid but anyways:
How come in English we spell 四川 as Szechuan even though pinyin is Si Chuan?
How come in English we spell 四川 as Szechuan even though pinyin is Si Chuan?
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this is wade-giles romanization. and it was widly used in China from late Qin dynasty to 1958. 😄😄😄
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles
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@Kurousaginekochan 我当时也是好奇了好久😊😊😊还有就是香港明星的名字，例如：周柏豪pakho
粤拼法还是什么滴？
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@Kurousaginekochan 就是上面给的链接啊，好像叫韦氏拼音，只有少数的名词英文会保留韦氏拼音，比如tai chi,kung fu
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邮政式拼音
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%82%AE%E6%94%BF...
邮政式拼音标注的不一定是普通话，peking tibet 都是邮政式拼音。
中国早期有很多套拉丁化方案，比如现在还在台湾护照上使用的威妥玛式拼音（韦氏拼音）；拉丁化新文字；国语罗马字等等。
还有一些比如hokkien是来自拉丁化的闽南语。
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威妥玛式拼音的 四川 是 ssuchuan，这个szechuan是邮政式拼音。
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😂I didn't notice you asked in English.
Abviously we don't have traditional Latin phonetic symbols. So in early time we have many different schemes like 国语罗马字，拉丁化新文字，威妥玛式拼音，邮政式拼音. English words transliterated from Chinese can be from different phonetic systems. Szechuan is from 邮政式拼音, which is consist of diverse dialects, not really a phonetic symbol system, only used for names of city. 四川 in 威妥玛式拼音（韦氏拼音）is ssuchuan. Different to 邮政式拼音, 威妥玛拼音 is only used for mandarin Chinese.
Some other words like wok, wonton, kungfu are from Latin form Cantonese. Some are from hokkien like the word hokkien itself, cumshaw. Some are not Chinese at all like tofu, ramen; they're Japanese but occasionally similar to Chinese pronunciation.
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It might have something to do with the way English speakers pronounce pinyin. The English way of spelling Chinese pinyin lol
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