Wade Giles

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wade-Giles ( /ˌweɪd ˈdʒaɪlz/; simplified Chinese: 韦氏拼音; traditional Chinese: 韋氏拼音; pinyin: Wéi-Shì Pīnyīn; Wade-Giles: Wei2-Shi4 P'in1-yin1), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century (simplified Chinese: 威妥玛拼音; traditional Chinese: 威妥瑪拼音; pinyin: Wēituǒmǎ Pīnyīn; Wade-Giles: Wei1-t'o3-ma3 P'in1-yin1), and was given completed form with Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892.