Talk:Xingan County

Requested move 5 April 2016[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain ^t/c 15:42, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Xin'gan County → Xingan County – The Pinyin rule about the separation mark states that the separation mark is needed when the subsequent syllable begins with vowel a, i or e. So the corrent Pinyin for 新干 is Xingan, and the Pinyin for 兴安 should be Xing'an. Currently the wiki entry "Xingan County" is redirected to "Xin'gan County", which is wrong. It should be redirected vice versa. TuhansiaVuoria (talk) 12:55, 5 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Xin'gan is not incorrect, and some people, including academics, do insist on adding the apostrophe to avoid possible confusion with Xing'an. However, pinyin orthography says apostrophe is not needed when the second syllable begins with a consonant, and that's what we should follow. -Zanhe (talk) 23:43, 7 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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