Bopomofo

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Name for Zhuyin Fuhao used by ISO and Unicode.
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of bopomofo. alt-of

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zhuyin fuhao

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"I often wonder why Mandarin and Cantonese writing did not incorporate phonograms amongst the logograms. I am thinking of Bopomofo and other phonographic inventions. I know that in other Chinese topolects as Hokkien, mixed phonographic-logographic text has been tried, in different versions. Japanese is just this way."

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin ㄅㄆㄇㄈ (bōpōmōfō), from the first four letters: ㄅ (bō), ㄆ (pō), ㄇ (mō), ㄈ (fō).

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