Chinese Without a Teacher —— Being a Collection of Easy and Useful Sentences in the Mandarin Dialect, With a Vocabulary

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ISBN: 9781333033934 出版年：2016 页码：101 Herbert A Giles Forgotten Books

The orthography, if such it may be called, is an attempt to express, so far as possible, Chinese sounds in simple English. The Chinese vowel-sound 12 is the only one which cannot be even approximately expressed, and the reader is therefore requested to pronounce it like the French u, or the German ii.