Romanization.com

a guide to Taiwan

Taiwan place names in hanyu pinyin and traditional spellings

• Taiwan cities and counties
• train stations

Taipei streets

• Taipei street names in Hanyu Pinyin and Chinese characters new! (Nov. 29, 2004)
• street sign styles
• the Taipei "nick-numbering" system

Taipei MRT

• MRT station names in hanyu pinyin (with tones)
• MRT station names without tones
• maps
• other

methods for romanizing Chinese

Note: most of the charts below appear in superior versions on my new website on Pinyin. Please look there.

• chart comparing zhuyin, Wade-Giles, MPS-2, hanyu pinyin, Yale, and tongyong pinyin systems
• chart comparing hanyu pinyin, tongyong pinyin, and bopofomo (zhuyin)
• where to place tone marks
• Q & A about tongyong pinyin
• chart comparing Wade-Giles and MPS 2 (Taiwan's official romanization system)

history & culture

• books about Taiwan and China
• Chinese New Year
• emperors of China's Ming dynasty

misc.

• typhoon names

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