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Yeah, Peking is much closer to the Cantonese pronunciation of the city, however, I think the guys who came up with the romanization did live in the north capita
by mc32 4y ago
Yeah, Peking is much closer to the Cantonese pronunciation of the city, however, I think the guys who came up with the romanization did live in the north capital city. On the other hand Wade-Giles is more prevalent in Singapore, HK and Taiwan, for example --though in some instances they are starting to follow the pinyin transliteration.
- glxxyz 4y agoWade-Giles is more prevalent in places that kept Traditional characters, because the mainland switched to Simplified and pinyin in the 1950s.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoetymonline says "Peking" comes from Hong Kong without much argument devoted to the question. Wiktionary claims, much more convincingly, that it comes from the Mandarin pronunciation of 450 years ago, before palatalization took place. > Abraham Ortelius used C. Paquin for his 1572 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas; Italian Jesuit Martino Martini used Peking in his 1654 Latin De Bello Tartarico Historia and 1655 Novus Atlas Sinensis, which were quickly translated into English ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Peking#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Peking#Etymology )