The Lord's Prayer in Mandarin Chinese

From The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China: By Use of Which Illiterate Chinese Both Blind and Sighted Can Very Quickly be Taught to Read & Write Fluently, by C.F. Gordon-Cumming (1898).

1. In Roman Alphabet, according to Sir Thomas Wade's standard spelling. This requires to be altered to suit each dialect in every Province.

Wo³ mên¹ tsai⁴ t'iên¹ shang⁴ ti¹ fu⁴,
yüan⁴ jên² tu¹ tsun¹ Ni³ ti¹ ming⁴ wei⁴ sheng⁴,
yüan⁴ Ni³ ti¹ kuo² chiang⁴ lin²,
yuan⁴ Ni³ ti¹ chih³ yi⁴ hsin² tsai⁴ ti⁴ shang⁴,
ju² t'ung² hsing² tsai⁴ t'ien¹ shang⁴.
Wo³ men¹ jih⁴ yung⁴ ti¹ yin³ shih²,
chin¹ jih⁴ t'su⁴ yü³ wo³ mên¹,
miên³ wo³ mên¹ ti¹ chai⁴,
ju² t'ung² wo³ mên¹ mien³ jên² ti¹ chai⁴.
Pu⁴ chao⁴ wo³ mên¹ yü⁴ chiên⁴ shih⁴ t'an⁴,
chiu⁴ wo³ mên¹ t'o¹ li² hsiung¹ ê⁴,
yin¹ wei¹ kuo² tu⁴ c'hüan¹ ping³ jung² yüeh⁴ c'hüan¹ shih⁴ ni³ ti¹
shih⁴ shih⁴ wu² c'hiung² a¹ mên¹.

2. In the Numeral Type, which can be read with equal facility in all Provinces of Mandarin China -- which comprises eight-ninths of the whole of China -- without any alteration, except, in certain Provinces, the addition of a very simple symbol to denote a fifth tone. (See note on page 132.)

numeral type for Mandarin Chinese

3. In Shorthand for Numeral Type.

numeral type shorthand example

4. The Lord's Prayer in Mandarin Chinese as Pronounced at Peking.

Chinese characters for Lord's Prayer

Pinyin

The Lord's Prayer in Mandarin Chinese