Taiwanese Braille


Taiwanese Braille is the braille script used in Taiwan for Taiwanese Mandarin. Although based marginally on international braille, the majority of consonants have been reassigned; also, like Chinese Braille, Taiwanese Braille is a semi-syllabary.
An example is,

Charts

Initials

The braille letters for zhuyin/pinyin ㄍ g, ㄘ c, and ㄙ s double for the alveolo-palatal consonants ㄐ j, ㄑ q, and ㄒ x. The latter are followed by close front vowels, namely ㄧ i and ㄩ ü, so the distinction between g, c, s and j, q, x in zhuyin and pinyin is redundant.

Medial + rime

Each medial + rime in zhuyin is written with a single letter in braille.
is used for both the empty rime -i, which is not written in zhuyin, and the rime ㄦ er. See for example 斯 sī located above the word Daguerre in the image at right.

Tone Marks

Tone is always marked. This includes toneless syllables such as 了 le, rendered lė in the image above-right.

Punctuation marks

Print。 ・，；、？！：
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Print＿＿﹏﹏……——— ——※◎
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Print「 」『 』（ ）〔 〕｛ ｝
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