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jph00
14 days ago
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Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and C...
q and ch both exist in pinyin, and have different sounds. The q sound requires placing the tip of the tongue on the teeth, and isn’t an initial consonant we have in English, so we don’t have a way to spell it.
stavros
14 days ago
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Ahh, I see, so it's not "Chian", it's "Tsian"?
BigTTYGothGF
14 days ago
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'q' is alveolar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_consonant
. In Wade-Giles it would be "Ch'ian".
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