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Zhuyin - History: Encyclopedia II - Zhuyin - History

The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation, led by Woo Tsin-hang from 1912 to 13, created a system called Guoyin Zimu (國音字母 "National Pronunciation Letters") or Zhuyin Zimu (註音字母 or 注音字母 "Sound-annotating Letters") which is based on Zhang Binglin's shorthands. (For differences with the Zhang system, see Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation#Phonetic symbols.) A draft was released on July 11, 1913 by the Republic of China National Ministry of Education, but it was not officially proclaimed until Novemb ...

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Zhuyin - History: Encyclopedia II - Zhuyin - Uses

These phonetic symbols sometimes appear as ruby characters printed next to the Chinese characters in young children's books, and in editions of classical texts (which frequently use characters that appear at very low frequency rates in newspapers and other such daily fare). In advertisements, these phonetic symbols are sometimes used to write certain particles (e.g., ㄉ instead of 的); other than this, one seldom sees these symbols used in mass media adult publications except as a pronunciation guide (or index system) in dictionary entries ...

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Zhuyin - History: Encyclopedia II - Zhuyin - Zhuyin vs. Tongyong Pinyin & Hanyu Pinyin

Zhuyin and Pinyin are based on the same Mandarin pronunciations, hence there is a mostly 1-to-1 mapping between the two systems. In the table below, the 'zhuyin' and 'pinyin' columns show equivalency. 【】represents the form used in combination with other symbols. A comparison between Pinyin and Zhuyin for Standard Mandarin can also be done by comparing entries in the following pag ...

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Zhuyin - History: Encyclopedia II - Zhuyin - Writing

Zhuyin symbols are written like Chinese characters, including the general order of strokes and positioning. They are always placed to the right of the Chinese characters, whether the characters are arranged vertically or horizontally. Technically, these are Ruby characters. Very rarely do they appear on top of Chinese characters when written horizontally as furigana would be written above kanji in a Japanese text. Because a syllable block contains usually two or three Zhuyin symbols (which themselves fit in a square format) stacked on top of each ...

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Zhuyin - History: Encyclopedia II - Zhuyin - Symbol origins

There was no official document explaining the details of the origins of the characters, but they are apparent if one understands some basic Chinese characters. The zhuyin symbols are mainly fragments of characters that contain the sound that each symbol represents. For example: ㄅ (b) ← 包 (bāo) ㄋ (n) ← 乃 (nǎi) ㄒ (x) ← 下 (xià) ㄙ (s) ← 私 (sī) ㄝ (ê) ← 也 (yě) ㄞ (ai) ← 亥 (hài) ㄟ (ei) ← 飛 (fē ...

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