I grew to hate my name. The courtesans pronounced it like the Shanghainese word vyau-la — what you said when you wanted to get rid of something. "Vyau-la! Vyau-la!" greeted me everywhere. My mother ...

收集非普通話漢語和古漢語的中州韻輸入法拼音方案 Collection of phonetic spelling schemas for Sinitic languages and dialects ...