Bopomofo, or Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, named Zhuyin, is a Chinese transliteration system for Mandarin Chinese and other related languages and dialects.
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15 Facts About Bopomofo
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Today, Bopomofo is more common in Taiwan than on the Chinese mainland, and is after Hanyu Pinyin used as a secondary electronic input method for writing Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan as well as in dictionaries or other non-official documents.
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In official documents, Bopomofo is occasionally called "Mandarin Phonetic Symbols I", abbreviated as "MPS I".
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Name Bopomofo comes from the first four letters of the system: ?, ?, ? and ?.
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Similar to the way that the word "alphabet" is ultimately derived from the names of the first two letters of the alphabet, the name "Bopomofo" is derived from the first four syllables in the conventional ordering of available syllables in Mandarin Chinese.
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Bopomofo is the predominant phonetic system in teaching, reading and writing in elementary school in Taiwan.
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Bopomofo is shown in a secondary position to Hanyu Pinyin in all editions of Xiandai Hanyu Cidian from the 1960 edition to the current 2016 edition.
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Bopomofo characters were created by Zhang Binglin, taken mainly from "regularized" forms of ancient Chinese characters, the modern readings of which contain the sound that each letter represents.
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Bopomofo is written in the same stroke order rule as Chinese characters.
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When used in conjunction with Chinese characters, Bopomofo is typically placed to the right of the Chinese character vertically in both vertical print and horizontal print or to the top of the Chinese character in a horizontal print.
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Bopomofo and pinyin are based on the same Mandarin pronunciations; hence there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two systems:.
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In Taiwan, Bopomofo is used to teach Taiwanese Hokkien, and is used to transcribe it phonetically in contexts such as on storefront signs, karaoke lyrics, and film subtitles.
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Bopomofo was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991 with the release of version 1.
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