| 释义 |
‖ zhuyin zimu|dʒujin dzimu|
Also with accents and (in Wade-Giles transliteration) as chu-yin tzu-mu.
[Chinese, f. zhùyīn phonetic notation (f. zhù notes + yīn sound) + zìmǔ letters of the alphabet (f. zì word, character + mǔ mother).]
The national phonetic alphabet of China made up of symbols based on Chinese characters, first adopted in 1918. Also ellipt. as zhuyin.
1938E. M. North Bk. Thousand Tongues 89/1 North Mandarin colloquial, Peking dialect, or Kuoyü... Chu Yin phonetics... Wang Chao phonetics... Roman characters. 1960Chang-tu Hu et al. China v. 107 A set of thirty-nine phonetic symbols, chu-yin tzu-mu, officially promulgated in 1918 by the government. 1968P. Kratochvíl Chinese Lang. Today v. 168 The purpose of the first official Chinese phonemic transcription called zhùyīn zìmŭ ‘Pronunciation Alphabet’..was to serve as a stepping stone towards learning the characters, and also as a tool for promulgating the National Language. 1978Nagel's Encycl.-Guide: China 95 The thirty-nine letters of the zhuyin zimu alphabet were taken from old, very simple Chinese characters. |