Woo Tsin-hang1 , born Wu Tiao , with the courtesy name Chih-hui , was a and philosopher who was the chairman of the 1912–13 Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation that created Zhuyin and standardized Guoyu pronunciation.
Woo Tsin-hang was born in Wujin , Jiangsu province, during the Qing Dynasty.
In 1905, before the establishment of the Republic of China, he met Sun Yat-sen in Europe and joined the Tong Meng Hui. He also became the first Academic Scholar of the Humanity Division of the Academia Sinica and a representative in the National People's Delegate Conferences . He moved to Taiwan and was the teacher of Chiang Ching-kuo. He died in Taipei at the age of 88.
He was also respected for his various styles of calligraphy, which is evident in the design of chu-yin; all of its symbols have the strokes and essence of calligraphy.
His publications can be found in ''The Collection of the Works of Mr. Wu Chih-hui'' .
"Woo Tsin-hang," used in the Academia Sinica's Western publications, is his name pronounced in the Jiangsu dialect of .
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