Sawndip

Sawndip Old Zhuang script
Characters for the Zhuang words saw "character" and ndip "uncooked"
Type	Logographic
Languages	Zhuang and Bouyei
Time period	to present
Parent systems	Chinese Sawndip

Zhuang characters, or Sawndip [θaɯ˨˦ɗip˥], are logograms derived from Han characters and used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi, China to write the Zhuang languages for more than one thousand years. In Mandarin Chinese, these are called Gǔ Zhuàngzì (Chinese: 古壮字; literally: "old Zhuang characters") or Fāngkuài Zhuàngzì (方块壮字; "square shaped Zhuang characters"). Sawndip (Sawndip: ) is a Zhuang word that means "immature characters". The Zhuang word for Chinese characters used in the Chinese language is sawgun (Sawndip: 倱; lit. "characters of the Han"), gun is Zhuang for the Han Chinese. The name "old Zhuang script" is usually used to distinguish it of the official alphabet based script Standard Zhuang. Even now, in traditional and less formal domains, Sawndip is more often used than alphabetical scripts.