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Zhuyin Fuhao, often shortened as zhuyin and commonly called bopomofo, is a type of sound-based writing for the Chinese language. In Chinese, "bo", "po", "mo" and "fo" are the first four of the conventional ordering of available syllables. As a result, the four syllables together have been used to refer to many different phonetic systems.
- History
- Current Use
- Simplified vs. Traditional Characters
When the People's Republic of China was formed in 1949, the Communist Party of China with Mao Zedong as its leader wanted to help the Chinese people read and write. Before 1949, most Chinese people could not read. The government hoped that by using fewer strokes to write characters, along with many other changes in the education system, the Chinese...
Since the Republic of China fled to Taiwan and became separated from the rest of China, the government there did not choose to simplify its writing system. So, they still use the older traditional Chinese characters in Taiwan. The territories of Hong Kong and Macau also still use traditional characters, even though they are politicallypart of the r...
Below is a list of simplified characters next to their traditional versions. There are several ways to simplify characters. 1. Write a character or one of its radicals in its cursive form. For example, 长 is a cursive form of 長, and 话, 银, 饮, and 狗 are cursive forms of 話, 銀, 飲, and 豿 in the same order. 2. Replace a traditional character with an exist...
