Nicolas Trigault
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Nicolas Trigault was a Jesuit, and a missionary in China. He was also known by his Latinised name Nicolaus Trigautius or Trigaultius, and his Chinese name Jin Nige.
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, by Nicolas Trigault and Matteo Ricci, Augsburg, 1615.
Portrait of Nicolas Trigault, by Rubens workshop, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai
Nicolas Trigault in Chinese Costume by Anthony van Dyck
Part 1 of 西儒耳目資, "Aid to the Eyes and Ears of Western Literati" by Nicolas Trigault
Pinyin
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The Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, commonly called Hanyu Pinyin or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. Hanyu literally means 'Han language' — that is, the Chinese l
Nicolas Trigault
…also known by his Latinised name Nicolaus Trigautius or Trigaultius, and his Chinese name Jin Nige (simplified Chinese: 金尼阁; traditional Chinese: 金尼閣; pinyin: Jīn Nígé). Born in Douai (then part of the County of Flanders in the Spanish Netherlands, now part of France), he became a Jesuit in 1594. Trigault…
A facade of a kindergarten in Zhengzhou, Henan, with writing using simplified characters and pinyin
A slogan written on a school wall featuring pinyin annotations without tonal marks or word grouping