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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.


Ahh, I see, so it's not "Chian", it's "Tsian"?


'q' is alveolar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_consonant. In Wade-Giles it would be "Ch'ian".




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