Bǽh-oe-tu
| Bǽh-oe-tu | |
|---|---|
| The Book of Genesis in Bǽh-oe-tu, published by the Bible Society of Great Britain | |
| Script type | (modified) | 
| Creator | Carl C. Jeremiassen | 
| Period | since c. 1890 | 
| Languages | Haikou dialect of Hainanese | 
| Related scripts | |
| Parent systems | Pe̍h-ōe-jī 
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| Transliteration of Chinese | 
|---|
| Mandarin | 
| Wu | 
| Yue | 
| Min | 
| Gan | 
| Hakka | 
| Xiang | 
| Polylectal | 
| See also | 
Bǽh-oe-tu (abbr. BOT; Chinese: 白話字) is an orthography used to write the Haikou dialect of the Hainanese language. It was invented by Carl C. Jeremiassen, a Danish pioneer missionary in Fucheng (present-day Haikou) in 1881.