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Though never successful in replacing the original Chinese script, Romanization remains the main medium of rendering Chinese sounds for non-Chinese speakers. List of online resources and conversion tables between different systems of Romanization.
The Library of Congress Chinese Romanization Guidelines
Catch-all but slow to download with many graphic files.
Romanization Conversion Table
Java applet that converts some of the more common Romanization systems for Chinese.
Pinyin to Zhuyin to Wade-Giles
Conversion table in Chinese.
Wade-Giles to Zhuyin to Pinyin Conversion Table
Based on the "Correspondence of Wade-Giles to Pinyin" list included in the Library of Congress Chinese Romanization Guidelines. (Requires a Chinese text supporting browser).
Pinyin to Wade-Giles Conversion Table
Does not include syllables which carry the same romanizations, e.g., fan, lin, min, etc.
HML Pinyin
Romanization without the diacritic marks by Tham Wai Houng.
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