why do Chinese words/names use X for the Sh- sound?

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why do Chinese words/names use X for the Sh- sound?

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Simply because Chinese doesn’t have an X sound, so the inventor of the pin yin transliteration repurposed it. Same reason that Q makes a “ch” sound.

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