Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols

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Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols (Chinese: ??????; TPS: ??? ??` ?? ?? ??? ???) is a system of phonetic notation for the transcription of Taiwanese languages, especially Taiwanese Hokkien. The system is designed by Professor Chu Chao-hsiang, a member of National Languages Committee in Taiwan, in 1946. The system is derived from Mandarin Phonetic Symbols by creating additional symbols for the sounds that do not appear in Mandarin phonology. It has been one of the officially promoted phonetic notation system by Taiwan's Ministry of Education.

Video Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols

Symbols

There are 49 symbols used in standard Taiwanese Hokkien. Of these 49 symbols, 26 are from the original Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, while 23 are additional, created for Taiwanese languages.

• The symbols in blue do not exist in Mandarin phonology.
• Four voiceless consonants may be written in lower case for an unreleased coda: ? [p? ], ? [t? ], ? [k? ], ? [?].
• Some extra symbols are used in other Taiwanese dialects: ?[?], ? [o], ? [?], ? [?].

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Etymology

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Other features

Combined rhymes

Tones

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Example

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Unicode support

The Mandarin Phonetic Symbols were added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991 with the release of version 1.0. The Unicode block for Mandarin Phonetic Symbols is U+3100 ... U+312F.

The extended phonetic symbols were added to the Unicode Standard in September 1999 with the release of version 3.0. The Unicode block for the extended symbols is U+31A0 ... U+31BF.

However, there are several errors in the extended symbols

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See also

• Taiwanese Hokkien
• Written Hokkien
• Pe?h-?e-j?
• Taiwanese Romanization System
• Taiwanese kana
• Bopomofo

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References

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External links

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