how did i get here… i was probably thinking about dream of the red chamber or something at that time, since the translation copy we have at home uses the wades-giles romanization system, and i have a hard time parsing how the names were supposed to be pronounced bc of that. that made me start thinking abt how taiwan has a slightly different romanization system, n i was like, "is that wades-giles? is that what they're using?"

so anyway, i think that got me thinking abt the romanization of taiwanese hokkien at work, n since there was nothing better to do, i ended up looking at the wikipedia page for the comparison of standard mandarin transcription systems. and again, since i must emphasize, i had nothing better to do, i ended up writing down what the various characters' names would be in the other systems.

oh yeah, and by the way, the names are listed in traditional chinese dictionary-order, and utilize my family name hc that i came up with a long time ago, just as a heads-up lol