Romanization system comparison

August 15th, 2005 by Roy Berman
Mutantfrog

An appendix to the Taiwan Yearbook I just mentioned in the previous post contains this chart comparing various Romanization schemes, which may be useful to those who were confused by my previous post on Romanization in Taiwan.

The left-hand column, labeled ‘MPS,’ is what is commonly referred to as Bopomofo. MPS stands for Mandarin Phonetic Symbols.

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