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  1. bopomofonoun

    Name for Zhuyin Fuhao used by ISO and Unicode.

  2. Etymology: From the first four letters of Zhuyin, ㄅ,ㄆ,ㄇ,ㄈ (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ); compare ABC.

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  1. Bopomofo

    Bopomofo (Chinese: 注音符號; pinyin: zhùyīn fúhào; Wade–Giles: chu⁴yin¹ fu²hao⁴), or Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, also named Zhuyin (Chinese: 注音; pinyin: zhùyīn), is a Chinese transliteration system for Mandarin Chinese and other related languages and dialects. More commonly used in Taiwanese Mandarin, it may also be used to transcribe other varieties of Chinese, particularly other varieties of Mandarin Chinese dialects, as well as Taiwanese Hokkien. Consisting of 37 characters and five tone marks, it transcribes all possible sounds in Mandarin. Bopomofo was first introduced in China by the Republican government in the 1910s and was used alongside the Wade–Giles system for romanization purposes, which used a modified Latin alphabet. Today, Bopomofo is now more common in Taiwan than on the Chinese mainland, and is after Hanyu Pinyin used as a secondary electronic input method for writing Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan as well as in dictionaries or other non-official documents.

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  1. Bopomofo

    Bopomofo is the colloquial name of the zhuyin fuhao or zhuyin system of phonetic notation for the transcription of spoken Chinese, particularly the Mandarin dialect. Consisting of 37 characters and four tone marks, it transcribes all possible sounds in Mandarin. Bopomofo was introduced in the Republic of China in the 1910s and used alongside the Wade-Giles system, which used a modified Latin alphabet. The Wade system was replaced by Hanyu Pinyin in the People's Republic of China in 1958, at the International Organization for Standardization in 1982, and on Taiwan in 2009, but Bopomofo remains widely used as an educational tool and electronic input method on the island.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bopomofo in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bopomofo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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