This Zhuyin table is a complete listing of all
Zhuyin (Bopomofo) syllables used in the
Republic of China
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Taiwan
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) as auxiliary to Chinese language studies while in
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an adaptation of the Latin alphabet is used to represent Chinese phonemes in the
Pinyin
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system. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an
initial
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(columns) and a
final
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(rows). An empty cell indicates that the corresponding syllable does not exist in Standard Chinese.
Finals are grouped into subsets , , and . The , and groupings indicate a combination of those finals with finals from Group ㄚ.
This table indicates possible combinations of
initials and
finals in
Standard Chinese
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, but does not indicate
tones, which are equally important to the proper pronunciation. Although some initial-final combinations have some syllables using each of the 5 different tones, most do not. Some utilise only one tone.
Equivalent Hanyu
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...
initials and finals are listed next to their respective bopomofo initial and final. Bopomofo entries in this page can also be compared to syllables using the
romanised Pinyin phonetic system in the
Pinyin table page.
There are differences between what syllables are listed in bopomofo tables and those that are listed in some pinyin tables, due to the standardisation differences of a few characters between the mainland standard ''Putonghua'' and the Taiwanese standard ''Guoyu''. For example, the variant sounds (ruá; ), (dèn; ), (tēi; ) are not used in the Taiwanese standard. Likewise the variant sound (lüán; ) is not recognized in ''Putonghua'', or it is folded into (luán; ).
Note that the zhuyin directly maps to Pinyin ü, except for the combination where it maps to Pinyin iong.
See also
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Bopomofo
Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao ( ; ), or simply Zhuyin, is a Chinese transliteration, transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages. It is the principal method of teaching Chinese Mandarin pronunciation in Taiwa ...
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Pinyin table
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Wade–Giles table
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Palladius table
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Katakana
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The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...
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Hiragana
is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''.
It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...
References
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