Chinese-American linguist and educator (1892–1982)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Chao.
The native form of this personal name is Chao Yuen Ren. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Yuen Ren Chao
趙元任
Chao as a young man c. 1916
Born
(1892-11-03)3 November 1892
Tianjin, Qing dynasty
Died
25 February 1982(1982-02-25) (aged 89)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality
Chinese (1892–1982)
American (1954–1982)
Education
Cornell University (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
Known for
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Mandarin Primer
Chinese dialectology
Spouse
Buwei Yang Chao
(m. 1921; died 1981)
Scientific career
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Tsinghua University
Notable students
Jerry Norman
Anne O. Yue-Hashimoto
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
趙元任
Simplified Chinese
赵元任
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhào Yuánrèn
Bopomofo
ㄓㄠˋ ㄩㄢˊ ㄖㄣˋ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Jaw Yuanrenn
Wade–Giles
Chao4 Yüan2-jên4
Tongyong Pinyin
Jhào Yuánrèn
Yale Romanization
Jàu Ywánrèn
MPS2
Jàu Yuánrèn
IPA
[ʈʂâʊ ɥɛ̌n.ɻə̂n]
Gan
Romanization
Ceu5 Ngion4 Nin5
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jiuh Yùhn-yahm
Jyutping
Ziu6 Jyun4-jam6
IPA
[tsiːu˨ jyːn˩.jɐm˨]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Tiō Goân-jīm
Tâi-lô
Tiō Guân-jīm
Yuen Ren Chao (3 November 1892 – 25 February 1982), also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer, who contributed to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar. Chao was born and raised in China, then attended university in the United States, where he earned degrees from Cornell University and Harvard University. A naturally gifted polyglot and linguist, his Mandarin Primer was one of the most widely used Mandarin Chinese textbooks in the 20th century. He invented the Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization scheme, which, unlike pinyin and other romanization systems, transcribes Mandarin Chinese pronunciation without diacritics or numbers to indicate tones.
YuenRenChao (3 November 1892 – 25 February 1982), also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer...
to practice Western medicine in China. She was married to linguist YuenRenChao. Yang was born in Nanjing into the Yang family, but was raised by her...
writing Standard Chinese in the Latin alphabet. It was conceived by YuenRenChao, who led a group of linguists to develop the system from 1925 to 1926...
materials. The book emerged in collaboration with her husband, YuenRenChao, and daughter, Rulan Chao Pian, and coined the commonly used English terms for Chinese...
series of iconic tone letters based on a musical staff was devised by YuenRenChao in the 1920s by adding a reference stave to the existing convention...
provide the sentence meaning through context is Chinese linguist YuenRenChao (1997). Chao's poem, entitled Making Sense Out of Nonsense: The Story of My...
Problem of the Chinese Language" co-authored by the Chinese linguist YuenRenChao (1892–1982) and poet Hu Shih (1891–1962) has been identified as a turning...
Look up chao, Chao, chāo, cháo, chǎo, chào, chão, chảo, chạo, or เจ้า in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chao may refer to: Chao (surname), various Chinese...
YuenRenChao. The CHINOPERL (Chinese Oral and Performing Literature) organization was founded in 1969 by a group of sinologists which included Yuen Ren...
zì; Wade–Giles: t'ung1-tzu4) is a diaphonemic orthography invented by YuenRenChao to represent the pronunciations of all major varieties of Chinese simultaneously...
as a noun meaning 'son'. This practice may have been introduced by YuenRenChao. The small-sized characters have been provisionally accepted for Unicode...
poem "Shī-shì shí shī shǐ" ("Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den") by YuenRenChao. The words are written differently in the original language (Classical...
became interested in historical phonology and studied the works of YuenRenChao, Wang Li and others at Wenzhou's library. In 1954, unable to enter university...
writing systems. General Chinese is a diaphonemic orthography invented by YuenRenChao to represent the pronunciations of all major varieties of Chinese simultaneously...
JSTOR 595651. Reprinted as Chao, YuenRen (1976), "What is correct Chinese?", Aspects of Chinese sociolinguistics: essays by YuenRenChao, Stanford University...
Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese (1947), which was compiled by YuenRenChao and Lien Sheng Yang, made numerous important lexicographic innovations...
in the Stone Den (pinyin: Shī Shì shí shī shǐ), homophonic poem by YuenRenChao This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shishi...
recordings of Wang Pu, a member of the Commission, and of noted linguist YuenRenChao. The notation used to indicate the prescribed pronunciation was zhuyin...
org, archived from the original on 2014-11-23, retrieved 2015-01-24. Chao, YuenRen (2002). 赵元任全集. Vol. 15, part 2. 商务印书馆. p. 583. "Washington State Book...
some authors consider it a tone sandhi akin to the third tone sandhi. YuenRenChao considered the changed tone 2 to be identical to tone 1, and Cao Wen...
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