Legge transliteration of Yijing hexagram names

This table shows how the the Legge romanization of Chinese represents the names of the 64 hexagrams of the Yi Jing, alongside how the Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems represent those same names.

Note:

Legge used italics to distinguish some consonants; since italics are sometimes a bit hard to make out, I've also underlined everything that's italic.  Legge also used a Fraktur "z", which I've rendered using the very similar Cyrillic equivalent of "z", З/з.  An alterative would be to use a digit 3, or maybe a Latin "z" with some accent, like Ž/ž.

Legge's consonants:   k kh h hs k kh y z t th n l s z з зh r sh p ph m w f [ng] [зze] [sz]

Legge's vowels (including some of the diphthongs):   ă a â i î u û e ê âi ei êi o âu ü

Note:

In the text above, I have used the simple ASCII apostrophe (U+0027): '

It is common represent those as so-called smartquote single apostrophe-- namely U+2019: ’
(So, Ch'ien→Ch’ien, just like English doesn't→doesn’t)

(Incidentally, apostrophes come up in Wade-Giles, never in Legge.)

The details of apostrophes in careful scholarly typesetting of Wade-Giles transcription of Chinese in Wade-Giles is the full Wade-Giles system (subsection "Consonants and initial symbols").

sburke, 2020-12-31