Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation
| Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 讀音統一會 | ||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 读音统一会 | ||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dúyīn Tǒngyī Huì |
| Bopomofo | ㄉㄨˊ ㄧㄣ ㄊㄨㄥˇ ㄧ ㄏㄨㄟˋ |
| Wade–Giles | Tuyin T'ungi Hui |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Tho̍k-im Thóng-it Hōe |
The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation (讀音統一會 Pinyin: Dúyīn Tǒngyī Huì) was the organization established by Beiyang Government in 1912 select ancillary phonetic symbols for Mandarin, (Zhuyin was the product) and set the standard Guoyu pronunciation of basic Chinese characters.
It was decided in a draft on August 7, 1912, a month after a conference led by the Cai Yuanpei on July 10, that a set of phonetic symbols were to be used for education purposes. The Commission was set up in December, led by Woo Tsin-hang. The Commission ended on May 22, 1913. A later similar organization that still exists that had been headed by Woo Tsin-hang for a while is the Mandarin Promotion Council.
The first meeting took place on February 15, 1913 in Beijing, with 44 delegates. The chairman was Woo; vice-chairman Wang Zhao (王照). There were two representatives per each of the 26 provinces. The Tibetans, the Mongolians and the overseas Chinese each had one representative. Prominent members included:
There were three main ideas of how the phonetic symbols should be:
The three groups discussed for two months and adopted 15 symbols from Zhang Binglin's all-Zhuanshu Jiyin Zimu (記音字母), which was the proposal by the Zhejiang Committee. Jiyin Zimu was renamed to Zhuyin Fuhao.
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