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Wade-Giles (iou)



Wade-Giles noun & adjective. M20.
[from Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-95), diplomat and first Professor of Chinese at Cambridge University + Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), Wade's successor at Cambridge.]
(Designating) a system of romanized spelling for transliterating the Chinese language devised by Wade and subsequently modified by Giles. (Now widely superseded by Pinyin.)