Taiwanese Braille
Braille script used in Taiwan for Standard Mandarin
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Taiwanese Braille is the braille script used in Taiwan for Taiwanese Mandarin (Guoyu).[1] Although based marginally on international braille, most consonants have been reassigned;[2] also, like Chinese Braille, Taiwanese Braille is a semi-syllabary.
- Braille
- Taiwanese Braille
| Taiwanese Braille ⠅⠒⠂⠳⠈⠀⠙⠞⠈⠓⠱⠐ | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
Print basis | Zhuyin |
| Languages | Standard Mandarin |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Night writing
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An example is,
| 國 | 語 | 點 | 字 | 記 | 號 | |||||||||||
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| ㄍ | ㄨㄛ | ˊ | ㄩ | ˇ | ㄉ | ㄧㄢ | ˇ | ㄗ | ㄭ | ˋ | ㄐ | ㄧ | ˋ | ㄏ | ㄠ | ˋ |
| guó | yǔ | diǎn | zì | jì | hào | |||||||||||
Charts
Initials
The braille letters for zhuyin/pinyin ㄍ g (/k/), ㄘ c (/tsʰ/), and ㄙ s (/s/) double for the alveolo-palatal consonants ㄐ j (/tɕ/), ㄑ q (/tɕʰ/), and ㄒ x (/ɕ/).[3] The latter are followed by close front vowels, namely ㄧ i (/i/) and ㄩ ü (/y/), so the distinction between g, c, s (or z, k, h) and j, q, x in zhuyin and pinyin is redundant.
Medial + rime
Each medial + rime in zhuyin is written with a single letter in braille.
| Zhuyin |  /ㄦ | ㄚ | ㄛ | ㄜ | ㄝ | ㄞ | ㄟ | ㄠ | ㄡ | ㄢ | ㄣ | ㄤ | ㄥ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinyin | -i/er | a | o | e | ê | ai | ei | ao | ou | an | en | ang | eng |
| Braille | |
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| Zhuyin | ㄧ | ㄧㄚ | ㄧㄛ | ㄧㄝ | ㄧㄞ | ㄧㄠ | ㄧㄡ | ㄧㄢ | ㄧㄣ | ㄧㄤ | ㄧㄥ | ||
| Pinyin | i | ia | io | ie | iai | iao | iu | ian | in | iang | ing | ||
| Braille | |  | |  |
|  |  |
|  |  |  | ||
| Zhuyin | ㄨ | ㄨㄚ | ㄨㄛ | ㄨㄞ | ㄨㄟ | ㄨㄢ | ㄨㄣ | ㄨㄤ | ㄨㄥ | ||||
| Pinyin | u | ua | uo | uai | ui | uan | un | uang | ong | ||||
| Braille |  |  | |  |  |  |  |  |  | ||||
| Zhuyin | ㄩ | ㄩㄝ | ㄩㄢ | ㄩㄣ | ㄩㄥ | ||||||||
| Pinyin | ü | üe | üan | ün | iong | ||||||||
| Braille | |  |  |  |  | ||||||||
⠱ is used for both the empty rime -i ([ɨ]), which is not written in zhuyin, and the rime ㄦ er ([ɐɚ]). See for example 斯 sī (⠑⠱⠄) located above the word Daguerre in the image at right.
Tone Marks
Tone is always marked.[4] This includes toneless syllables such as 了 le, rendered ⠉⠮⠁lė in the image above-right.