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Taiwanese Braille

Taiwanese Braille is the braille script used in Taiwan for Taiwanese Mandarin (Guoyu). Although based marginally on international braille, most consonants have been reassigned; also, like Chinese Braille, Taiwanese Braille is a semi-syllabary.

An example is,

Charts

Initials

The braille letters for zhuyin/pinyin ㄍ g (), ㄘ c (), and ㄙ s () double for the alveolo-palatal consonants ㄐ j (), ㄑ q (), and ㄒ x (). The latter are followed by close front vowels, namely ㄧ i () and ㄩ ü (), 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.

is used for both the empty rime -i (), which is not written in zhuyin, and the rime ㄦ er (). See for example 斯 sī () located above the word Daguerre in the image at right.

Tone Marks

Tone is always marked. This includes toneless syllables such as 了 le, rendered lė in the image above-right.

Punctuation marks

Punctuation

References

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