This Palladius table is a complete listing of all Palladius system syllables used in

cyrillization Cyrillization or Cyrillisation is the process of rendering words of a language that normally uses a writing system other than Cyrillic script into (a version of) the Cyrillic alphabet. Although such a process has often been carried out in an ad h ...

of Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an

initial In a written or published work, an initial capital, also referred to as a drop capital or simply an initial cap, initial, initcapital, initcap or init or a drop cap or drop, is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that ...

(columns) and a

final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: * Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...

(rows). An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Chinese. The below table indicates possible combinations of

initials In a written or published work, an initial capital, also referred to as a drop capital or simply an initial cap, initial, initcapital, initcap or init or a drop cap or drop, is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that ...

and

finals Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...

in Standard Chinese, but does not indicate tones, which are equally important to the proper pronunciation of Chinese. Although some initial-final combinations have some syllables using each of the five different tones, most do not. Some utilize only one tone.

Finals Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...

are grouped into subsets ''а (a)'', ''и (i)'', ''у (u)'' and ''юй (ü)''. ::Syllables with final ''о'' have multiple counterparts in different romanization systems ::{, class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" ! IPA , pu̯ɔ, , pʰu̯ɔ, , mu̯ɔ, , fu̯ɔ, , tu̯ɔ, , tʰu̯ɔ, , nu̯ɔ, , lu̯ɔ, , ku̯ɔ, , kʰu̯ɔ, , xu̯ɔ, , ʈʂu̯ɔ, , ʈʂʰu̯ɔ, , ʂu̯ɔ, , ʐu̯ɔ, , ʦu̯ɔ, , ʦʰu̯ɔ, , su̯ɔ , - !Palladius , бо, , по, , мо, , фо, , до, , то, , но, , ло, , го, , ко, , хо, , чжо, , чо, , шо, , жо, , цзо, , цо, , со , - !

Wade–Giles Wade–Giles () is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert A. Giles's '' Chinese–English Dictionary'' o ...

, po, , p'o, , mo, , fo, , to, , t'o, , no, , lo, , kuo, , k'uo, , huo, , cho, , ch'o, , shuo, , jo, , tso, , ts'o, , so , - !

Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally writte ...

, bo, , po, , mo, , fo, , duo, , tuo, , nuo, , luo, , guo, , kuo, , huo, , zhuo, , chuo, , shuo, , ruo, , zuo, , cuo, , suo , - ! Bopomofo , ㄅㄛ, , ㄆㄛ, , ㄇㄛ, , ㄈㄛ, , ㄉㄨㄛ, , ㄊㄨㄛ, , ㄋㄨㄛ, , ㄌㄨㄛ, , ㄍㄨㄛ, , ㄎㄨㄛ, , ㄏㄨㄛ, , ㄓㄨㄛ, , ㄔㄨㄛ, , ㄕㄨㄛ, , ㄖㄨㄛ, , ㄗㄨㄛ, , ㄘㄨㄛ, , ㄙㄨㄛ

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