opfsong.blogg.se - Zhuyin fuhao

(onsets) and finals (rimes), and diacritics for tones.

Type of writing system: semi-syllabary with symbols for initials.

The Zhuyin symbols were developed from Chinese charactersĪnd use parts of characters that have the relevant pronunciation (zhùyīn fúhào - "phonetic symbols") in 1930,Īnd is popularly known as ㄅㄆㄇㄈ (bopomofo) Was first proposed as the national standard for transcribing Mandarin ChineseĪt a government-sponsored conference in 1913 and officially adopted (gúoyīn zìmŭ - "national phonetic letters") and it Zìmŭ - "sound anotating letters") or 國音字母 The Unification of Pronunciation (讀音統一會),īut was abandoned in favour of Hanyu PinyinĪfter 1949, and has been used in Taiwan since then. It was created in China between 19 by the Commission on Write Taiwanese words for which no characters exist.

It is also used to show the Taiwanese pronunciation of characters and to Newspapers and magazines to show the pronunciation of the characters. Not sure if this is true but they say Arabic was only rendered as images on the web until year 2,000 - there were problems with right-to-left directions.Zhuyin fuhao is a phonetic script used in dictionaries,Ĭhildren's books, text books for people learning Chinese and in some

I'd prefer this to image files but, anyway, the site is great. They could do it in horizontal, if vertical is not feasible. See attached screenshots - vertical (from MS Word) and horizontal (converted to HTML): Well, Japanese are not too fussed, they use both horizontal (if vertical is not practical or if the text is mixed with another script) and vertical (more traditional)

The Bopomofo characters become horizontal in HTML. Perhaps, it's too difficult to make vertical scripts on a web site, although, I tried converting a Word document with Zhuyin Fuhao as ruby (furigana) into an HTML file. There are also some stories in Chinese with Bopomofo in gif image files with English translations (also images). Thanks a lot! No wonder, I couldn't find resources myself - Zhuyin Fuhao 注音符號 / 注音符号 is published as image.