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According to [[The Other Wiki]], these systems are transcriptions of Chinese rather than transliterations since Chinese writing is logographic, not alphabetic. (Chinese does have the native [
It may be tempting to view Pinyin (and other romanization systems) as a method to kludge the Chinese language onto a keyboard, but that is not the case. The
This is also the reason why us older folks had trouble for a while with the city of Beijing. We wondered what this city was and why it had become the capital. Seems that Peking was renamed Beijing in English one day without any notice. Note to media, it's not a good idea to suddenly change the spelling of something without a lot of mentioning that you have done it. Even more confusingly, during the Chinese Civil War the Kuomintang actually did rename it to "Peiping" and the Taiwanese government still officially refers to it by that name - at a casual glance, if anything "Peiping" looks ''more'' like a re-spelling of Peking and "Beijing" looks like a totally different name, but it's the other way around.
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