For questions about representing the letters or glyphs of one script in those of another. The emphasis is on avoiding ambiguity rather than matching sounds for which there are tags [pronunciation] and [tones]. For representing meaning across languages there is the tag [translation].
Questions tagged [transliteration]
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When and why did Cambridge go from being 康桥 and become 剑桥?
I've previously only known Cambridge to be translated as: 剑桥.
Flipping through some things today I came across an old poem entitled:《再别康桥》
The Wikipedia page has the following note on the poem:
作者最后一次重访英国剑桥（旧译康桥）
Aside from this piece of work 康桥…
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How to transliterate and pronounce English letters in Chinese?
I would like to know the following.
I would like to know how to pronounce (and perhaps also spell with Chinese characters) the standalone letters of the English alphabet in Chinese. I am particularly concerned about letters appearing in vitamins.…
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Is this statement about the challenges of tracking down the Chinese equivalent of a name in Pinyin basically correct?
In the Space Exploration SE question Is the Ceres-1 the first Chinese rocket that was given an official English name? I wrote the following as background.
Transliteration from Chinese Pinyin to English is ambiguous; many Chinese characters can have…
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What Chinese characters for “ching wong but jeep” (Roughly: There is no one to keep things going)?
Man Sing Lee of Mott 32
So Toronto and Vancouver’s Chinese food culture is starting to be “ching wong but jeep” (Roughly: There is no one to keep things going). Toronto and Vancouver used to compete in the quality of their Chinese restaurants, but…
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Transliteration of Sanskrit
I'm looking for resources on transliterating Sanskrit into Mandarin Chinese. Not necessarily just Buddhist terms, but a greater variety of Vedanta philosophy terms.
(I have seen online, A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by Soothill.)
I'm…
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Does "sticker" have a transliteration?
I hear people use the English loan word sticker a lot in Chinese, perhaps even more than 粘粘, 贴贴 or what have you.
Although a loan word, sticker prounced in Chinese mainly sounds like a transliteration with a combination of:
si • ti • ke
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si •…
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Can a single consonant (辅音) ever be used in transliteration?
Listening to Kylian Mbappé’s Chinese surname:
姆巴佩
Always makes me wonder why 姆 is even part of his name.
The English (read: French) pronunciation seems a lot closer to something like:
呣
A single consonant (辅音) pronounced in different tones…
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Use of 比如 to answer a question.
比如 This phrase was used to answer a question I had for a friend. She answered back with 比如. Is this a common practice or a colloquial use of an abbreviation?
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