ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 7098 Third edition 2015-12-15 Information and documentation Romanization of Chinese Information et documentation - Romanisation du chinois Reference number ISO 7098:2015(E) SO International Organization for Standardization ZHEJIANG INST OF STANDARDIZATION C1 5956617 IS02015 ovided by IHS under li No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS IS0 7098:2015(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT IS0 2015, Published in Switzerland All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISOcopyrightoffice Ch. de Blandonnet 8 . CP 401 CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva, Switzerland Tel.+41 22 749 0111 Fax +41 22 749 09 47 copyright@iso.org www.iso.org Internatinair PrganizationforStandardization ensee-ZHEJIANG INST.OF STANDARDIzARoISQ15- All rights reserved Not for Resale, 2016/3/29 05:07:05 etworking permitted without license from IHS IS0 7098:2015(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. ..1 2 Terms and definitions ..1 3 General principles of conversion of writing systems ..2 4 Principles for converting ideophonographic characters ..3 5 Pinyin. .4 6 Syllabic forms 7 Tones. .5 8 Punctuation. ..7 9 Numerals. ..7 10 Chinese Pinyin Orthography ..7 11 Transcription rules for named entities .8 12 Automatic transcription for named entities. .12 12.1 Fully automatic syllable transcription. .12 12.2 Rule-based and semi-automatic word transcription .12 Annex A (normative) Table of Chinese syllable forms ..14 Annex B (normative) Table of hexadecimal codes of Chinese vowels with tones ..16 Annex C (normative) Ambiguity index for Chinese syllables. ..17 Bibliography .18 iii lout license from IHS