Bopomofo

Bopomofo

A set of characters used to teach the phonetics of Chinese. These characters are used in teaching materials such as dictionaries, but do not appear in the actual writing of the Chinese language.

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Industry/Domain: Software; Translation & localization
Category: Internationalization (I18N)
Company: Microsoft
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