Zhuyin

See also:zhūyīn,zhǔyīn,zhùyīn,andZhùyīn

English

Etymology

Short forZhuyin fuhao,from theHanyu Pinyinromanization ofMandarinChú âm／Chú âm(zhùyīn).

Proper noun

Zhuyin

1. Bopomofo,Zhuyin fuhao
   • 2011,Carolyn Pytlyk, “Shared Orthography: Do Shared Written Symbols Influence the Perception of L2 Sounds?”, inThe Modern Language Journal,volume95,number 4,→JSTOR,abstract:

     The tasks included pre- and post-test perception tests and language classes where the participants learned Mandarin through 1 of 3 means: Pinyin, the familiar orthography;Zhuyin,the non-familiar orthography; or no orthography.

   • 2014,Andrea Bachner,Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture,page186:

     Taiwanese Martian Script, with its basis of traditional Chinese script, uses symbols from the nationwide phonetic transliteration systemZhuyin,and at times reflects the Taiwanese or Hakka pronunciation of characters that are phonetically substituted.

   • 2015,Jan-Li Wang, Teng-Hua Weng, Sheue-Ling Hwang, Cin-Wei Huang, Shwu-Ching Young, “A preliminary study on instructional design of Chinese input method for blind students”, inJournal of Computers in Education,volume 2, number 2,→DOI,page126:

     All students, including the blind students, in Taiwan are taught withZhuyinto assist the learning of the Chinese characters from the very beginning of elementary school.

   • 2017,Stanley Wang, Andrew Scrimgeour, Anne-Marie Morgan, “Exploring the use of Zhuyin in early primary Chinese literacy development”, inBabel,volume52,number 1, abstract:

     In selecting a script to assist with language and literacy development in Chinese, the school trialled the use ofZhuyin,a phonetic writing system commonly used in Taiwan.

   • 2018,Luan Li, Hua-Chen Wang, Anne Castles, Miao-Ling Hsieh, Eva Marinus, “Phonetic radicals, not phonological coding systems, support orthographic learning via self-teaching in Chinese”, inCognition,volume176,→DOI,abstract:

     We examined two possible types of phonological decoding: the use of phonetic radicals, an internal phonological aid, and the use ofZhuyin,an external phonological coding system.

Translations

Zhuyin fuhao—seeZhuyin fuhao