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Yi Syllables is a Unicode block containing the 1,165 characters ... syllabic Yi (middle), and Chinese (bottom), on Potou Elementary School in Jianshui County, Yunnan.
Classical Yi – which is an ideographic script like the Chinese characters, but with a very different origin – has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but a proposal to encode 88,613 Classical Yi characters was made in 2007 (including many variants for specific regional dialects or historical evolutions. They are based on an extended set of ...
Most syllables are a combination of an initial and a final. However, some syllables have no initials. This is shown in Pinyin as follows: if the syllable begins with an i, it is replaced with a y; if the syllable begins with an u, it is replaced with a w; if the syllable begins with an ü, it is replaced with yu
This comparison of Standard Chinese transcription systems comprises a list of all syllables which are considered phonemically distinguishable within Standard Chinese. Gwoyeu Romatzyh employs a different spelling for each tone , whereas other systems employ tone marks or superscript numerals.
In Standard Chinese, about 15–20% of the syllables in written texts are considered unstressed, including certain suffixes, clitics, and particles. Second syllables of some disyllabic words are also unstressed in Northern Mandarin accents, but many Mandarin speakers in Southern China tend to preserve their inherent tone.
reference syllable u+a490 ꒐ yi radical qot ꐈ u+a491 ꒑ yi radical li ꆹ u+a492 ꒒ yi radical kit ꇸ u+a493 ꒓ yi radical nyip ꑍ u+a494 ꒔ yi radical cyp
This 36x44 table does not include the Yi syllable iteration mark (encoded with the standardized but incorrect name "YI SYLLABLE WU" at U+A015 in Unicode and ISO 10646 after the vowel-starting syllables and before consonant-starting syllables), so the table cell for the inexistant and unencoded Yi syllable WU is empty (as expected).
An example of Chinese bronze inscriptions on a bronze vessel – early Western Zhou (11th century BC). The earliest known examples of Chinese writing are oracle bone inscriptions made c. 1200 BC at Yin (near modern Anyang), the site of the final capital of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC).