Cǎo Yīn Zì is an alternative alphabet for Mandarin Chinese invented by Mattias Persson (lamperss@comhem.se). The alphabet is based on bopomofo, the Chinese phonetic symbols used mainly in Taiwan.
The name of this alphabet, suggest by Simon Ager, means Draft Phonetic Characters. It takes the draft part from the cursive form of the Chinese script, known literally as 'Draft Script' (草书 [cǎoshū]).
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Constructed scripts for: Ainu | Arabic | Chinese languages | Dutch | English | French | Hawaiian | Hungarian | Japanese | Kadazandusun | Korean | Lingala | Malay & Indonesian | Persian | Tagalog / Filipino | Russian | Sanskrit | Spanish | Taino | Turkish | Vietnamese | Welsh | Other natural languages | Colour-based scripts | Tactile scripts | Phonetic/universal scripts | Constructed scripts for constructed languages | Adaptations of existing alphabets | Fictional alphabets | Magical alphabets | A-Z index | How to submit a constructed script
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