Taiwanese kana |
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Type |
Syllabary with some features of an alphabet
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Languages | Taiwanese Hokkien |
Time period
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1896 - 1945 |
Parent systems
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Oracle Bone Script
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Sister systems
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Hakka kana |
Taiwanese kana | |||||||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 臺灣語假名 | ||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 台湾语假名 | ||||||||||||||
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Japanese name | |||||||||||||||
Kyūjitai | 臺灣語假名 | ||||||||||||||
Shinjitai | 台湾語仮名 | ||||||||||||||
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Transcriptions | |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Táiwānyǔ jiǎmíng |
Wade–Giles | T'ai2-wan1-yü3 chia3-ming2 |
Tongyong Pinyin | Táiwanyǔ jiǎmíng |
Southern Min | |
Hokkien POJ | Tâi-oân-gí ká-bêng |
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Romanization | Taiwan-go kana |
Taiwanese kana (タイヲァヌギイカアビェン) is a katakana-based writing system that was used to write Taiwanese Hokkien (commonly called "Taiwanese") when the island of Taiwan was under Japanese rule. It functioned as a phonetic guide to hanzi, much like furigana in Japanese or Zhuyin fuhao in Chinese. There were similar systems for other languages in Taiwan as well, including Hakka and Formosan languages.