Two-cell Chinese Braille

Two-cell Chinese Braille
Script type with characteristics of an abugida
LanguagesStandard Mandarin
Related scripts
Parent systems
Braille
Two-cell Chinese Braille
Traditional Chinese漢語雙拼盲文
Simplified Chinese汉语双拼盲文
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHànyǔ shuāngpīn mángwén

Two-cell Chinese Braille was designed in the 1970s and is used in parallel with traditional Chinese Braille in China.

Each syllable is rendered with two braille characters. The first combines the initial and medial; the second the rime and tone. The base letters represent the initial and rime; these are modified with diacritics for the medial and tone. Thus each of the braille cells has aspects of an abugida.[2][3]

  1. ^ From Japanese Braille came the idea of an abugida-like approach to rendering syllables.[1]
  2. ^ languagehat at March 3, 2008 11:05 AM (2008-03-03). "Japanese Braille". languagehat.com. Retrieved 2012-08-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ 汉语双拼盲文方案