Taiwanese Braille



Taiwanese Braille is the braille script used in Taiwan for Taiwanese Mandarin (Guoyu). Although based marginally on international braille, most consonants have been reassigned; also, like Chinese Braille, Taiwanese Braille is a semi-syllabary.

An example is,

Initials
The braille letters for zhuyin/pinyin ㄍ g, ㄘ c , and ㄙ s double for the alveolo-palatal consonants ㄐ j , ㄑ q , and ㄒ x. The latter are followed by close front vowels, namely ㄧ i and ㄩ ü, so the distinction between g, c, s (or z, k, h) and j, q, x in zhuyin and pinyin is redundant.

Medial + rime
Each medial + rime in zhuyin is written with a single letter in braille.

is used for both the empty rime -i, which is not written in zhuyin, and the rime ㄦ er. See for example 斯 sī located above the word Daguerre in the image at right.

Tone Marks
Tone is always marked. This includes toneless syllables such as 了 le, rendered lė in the image above-right.

Punctuation marks
Punctuation