Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

palladius system

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English

Syllables: pal-la-dius sys-tem
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A Cyrillization scheme for Chinese.

Example Sentences

"The Russian transliteration is based on the palladius system."
"The phonetic transcription of the Chinese ideograms in Roman letters was transformed into Cyrillic by transforming the Wade–Giles system into the Palladius system."
"Any attempt to trace its origins must contend with the fact that the Bolshoi collective did not know Chinese, and they probably were not familiar with the Palladius system for rendering Chinese phonemes in Cyrillic."

Etymology

After the monastic name of Pyotr Kafarov, Russian monk and sinologist, the inventor of the system.

Questions

What does palladius system mean?: A Cyrillization scheme for Chinese.
Where does palladius system come from?: After the monastic name of Pyotr Kafarov, Russian monk and sinologist, the inventor of the system.

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