Cyrillization of Chinese

Palladius transcription is a transcription system in the Cyrillic alphabet for the Chinese language.

It was the Archimandrite and sinologist Palladius ( Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarow ) based on previous work by NJ Bičurin ( Hyacinth ) and Vasily Pavlovich Vasilyev created and with his Китайско - русский словарь ( Chinese -Russian dictionary, completed by PS Popov ) popularized, which appeared in 1888. Palladius transcription is still the common Russian transliteration of the Chinese.

Ireneus László Legeza identifies the system by Vasily Pavlovich Vasilyev as " Vasil'ev system" ( 1969:10 ).

Sound-letter mapping

Compared with Hanyu Pinyin, there are the following sound-letter mappings:

Initial sounds:

• B, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h → б, п, м, ф, д, т, н, л, г, к, х
• J, q, x → цз, ц, с
• R, zh, ch, sh → ж, чж, ч, ш
• Z, c, s → цз, ц, с

цз, ц, с are so occupied twice.

End of a word:

• Main vowels a, e, o → а, э, о
• -ia/ya, -ie/ye, -i/yi, yo, -ü/yu → я, е, и, ё, ю ü in final position and the syllable yu are written юй

• Special case: wu → у

• Special case: hui → хуэй ( Dovetailed э )

• The syllable ending ng is written in compounds as нъ when the following syllable begins with a vowel - eg Чанъань ( Chang'an ) or Хэнъян (Hengyang ).

Ukrainian variant

There is one adapted to the Ukrainian font variant, which differs as follows:

• е → є
• э → е
• и → і in жи, чжи, чи, ши (ri, zhi, chi, shi) remains at и