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Re:Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China ga... by jph00 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:50AM (#48220110)
q and ch both exist in pinyin, and have different sounds. The q sound requires placing the tip of the tongue on the teeth, and isn’t an initial consonant we have in English, so we don’t have a way to spell it.
Re:Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China ga... by stavros on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:54AM (#48220145)
Ahh, I see, so it's not "Chian", it's "Tsian"?
Re:Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China ga... by BigTTYGothGF on Thursday May 21, 2026 @08:49AM (#48221813)
'q' is alveolar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_consonant. In Wade-Giles it would be "Ch'ian".