Mainland Chinese Braille

For Mandarin braille in Taiwan, see Taiwanese Braille.
Chinese Braille
⠓⠩⠆⠓⠡⠂⠀⠍⠦⠂⠒⠂
Script type
Print basis
Pinyin, bopomofo
LanguagesStandard Chinese
Related scripts
Parent systems
Night writing
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Mainland Chinese Braille
Traditional Chinese現行盲文
Simplified Chinese现行盲文
Literal meaningCurrent Braille
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXiànxíng Mángwén
A sample Mainland Chinese Braille text in Xujiahui Park, Shanghai. Most of the tones are omitted except for in a few places that may cause confusion. Note that the vowel in the particle *de* is always written in this text, rather than being omitted.

Mainland Chinese Braille is a braille script for Standard Chinese used in China.[1] Consonants and basic finals conform to international braille, but additional finals form a semi-syllabary, as in bopomofo. Each syllable is written with up to three Braille cells, representing the initial, final, and tone, respectively. In practice tone is generally omitted as it is in pinyin.

  1. ^ Pace Unesco (2013), a different alphabet is used in Taiwan, Taiwanese Braille.