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GB/T 38207-2019Generic terms of geographical names in China - Chinese phonetic alphabet spelling rules (English PDF)

中国地理实体通名汉语拼音字母拼写规则

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Issued by

SAMR; SAC

Level / Type

National · Recommended

Issue date

October 18, 2019

Implementation date

October 18, 2019

Scope

GB/T 38207-2019 is the English-translated version of 中国地理实体通名汉语拼音字母拼写规则.

GB/T 38207-2019 is the Chinese standard "Generic terms of geographical names in China - Chinese phonetic alphabet spelling rules". Its scope clause reads: This standard stipulates the spelling rules for the Chinese phonetic alphabet of Chinese geographical entities.

This standard is applicable to the spelling of Chinese pinyin letters for the generic names of Chinese geographical entities. Its clauses include terms and definitions.

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Document preview — GB/T 38207-2019

National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS: 01.140.10
Classification: A 14

Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of the PRC

1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 Geographic entity
3.2 Chinese pinyin letters spelling spelingintheChinesephoneticalphabet
3.3 Place name geographicalnames
3.4 Place name generictermofgeographicalnames

1 Scope

This standard stipulates the spelling rules for the Chinese phonetic alphabet of Chinese geographical entities.

This standard is applicable to the spelling of Chinese pinyin letters for the generic names of Chinese geographical entities.

2 Normative references

The following documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only dated versions apply to this article.

Pieces. For undated references, the latest edition (including all amendments) applies to this document.

GB/T 16159-2012 Basic rules of Chinese phonetic Orthography

GB 17733-2008 place name mark

Mandarin discourse

Transliteration of Chinese Pinyin Letters in Minority Languages (promulgated by the State Administration of Surveying and Mapping and the Chinese Character Reform Committee in June 1976)

Chinese Place Names Pinyin Alphabet Spelling Rules (Chinese Place Names) (December 1984 China Geographical Names Committee, Chinese Character Reform Committee

Member, National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping)

3 Terms and definitions

The following terms and definitions apply to this document.

3.1 Geographic entity

Terrain entities on the surface of the Earth or other planets.

Note. Rewrite GB/T 29633.1-2013, definition 2.1.

3.2 Chinese pinyin letters spelling spelingintheChinesephoneticalphabet

A method of spelling using Chinese Pinyin letters.

3.3 Place name geographicalnames

A distinguished name given to each geographic entity.

Note. Rewrite GB/T 17693.1-2008, definition 2.1.

3.4 Place name generictermofgeographicalnames

General name

A word used in a place name to distinguish a geographic entity category.

Note. Rewrite GB/T 17693.1-2008, definition 2.3.

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