Two-cell Chinese Braille
| Two-cell Chinese Braille | |
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| Script type | with characteristics of an abugida |
| Languages | Standard Mandarin |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Braille
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| Two-cell Chinese Braille | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 漢語雙拼盲文 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 汉语双拼盲文 | ||||||
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Two-cell Chinese Braille was designed in the 1970s and is used in parallel with traditional Chinese Braille in China.
Each syllable is rendered with two braille characters. The first combines the initial and medial; the second the rime and tone. The base letters represent the initial and rime; these are modified with diacritics for the medial and tone. Thus each of the braille cells has aspects of an abugida.