Re: Bopomofo and pinyin

John Fisher wrote:

> Is bopomofo the same thing as Zhuyin Zimu (also called Zhuyin Fuhao)?
Yes.  The name "bopomofo" comes from the first four characters, as
in "alphabeta".

> If so I have a brief description here and I could scan it onto the web
> if anyone wants (although the key is in Gwoyeu Romatzyh, which is a bit
> heavy going).
I'll say.  A good explanatory page on GR:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8351/Romatzyh.html

A complete mapping with Pinyin - WadeGiles - Yale - GuoyinII - GwoyeuRomatzyh -
Bopomofo: http://w3.sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/~seke/tsaou/romanize/pywgzh.txt

> It seems to have a maximum of four characters per
> syllable: eg, qiang2 is written as the equivalent of q-i-ang-2.
Ah, so some rhymes are split between two characters.  Didn't know that.

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