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2 unusual facts about Four-Corner Method


Four-Corner Method

The first large-scale project to promote spoken language unification was in 1936: Wang Li's 4 volume Mandarin Phonetic System (MPS) entry, Guoyu Cidian (Kuo-yu Tz'u-tien).

The northern Mandarin pronunciations were given in the "Guoyu Luomazi", devised by linguist Zhao Yuanren, as well as in Mandarin Phonetic System (MPS) characters with a dotted corner for tone.



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