注音符号 (注音符號) zhùyīn fúhào
zhùyīn fúhào
proper noun
Zhuyin; Zhuyin Symbols; Bopomofo
Domain: Linguistics 语言学
, Subdomain: China
Notes: Abbreviated 注音, literally Zhuyin Symbols, is a phonetic transliteration for Chinese developed in the Republican period. It renamed 国音字母, literally Phonetic Alphabet of the National Language, in 1930. It is still in use in Taiwan today (Norman 1988, pp. 258-259; Sun 2006, loc. 300).