Sawndip
Sign in to save'''''' (Sawndip: ; ) are Chinese characters used to write the Zhuang languages in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan. is a Zhuang word that means "immature characters". The Zhuang word for Chinese characters used in the Chinese languages is ( 'Han characters'); gun is the Zhuang term for the Han Chinese. Even now, in traditional and less formal domains, Sawndip is more often used than alphabetical scripts.
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- Sawndip
- Writing system.altname
- Old Zhuang script
- Writing system.type
- Logographic
- Writing system.languages
- Zhuang, Bouyei
- Writing system.time
- 7th century – present
- Writing system.fam1
- Oracle bone script
- Writing system.fam2
- Han script
- Writing system.sample
- Sawndip.svg
- Writing system.imagesize
- 160px
- Writing system.caption
- Characters for the Zhuang words 'character' and 'uncooked'
- Writing system.note
- none
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20 sectionsContents
- Names
- Characteristics
- Classification
- History
- Early vernacular characters
- Tang dynasty (7th–9th centuries)
- Song dynasty (10th–13th centuries)
- Ming dynasty (14th–17th centuries)
- Qing dynasty (mid-17th–19th centuries)
- Modern era (20th–21st centuries)
- Unicode
- Literature
- Regional differences
- Example text
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
'''''' (Sawndip: ; ) are Chinese characters used to write the Zhuang languages in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan. is a Zhuang word that means "immature characters". The Zhuang word for Chinese characters used in the Chinese languages is ( 'Han characters'); gun is the Zhuang term for the Han Chinese. Even now, in traditional and less formal domains, Sawndip is more often used than alphabetical scripts.
==Names== Sawndip is also called old Zhuang script, usually used to distinguish it from the Latin-based Standard Zhuang. In Standard Chinese, the old Zhuang script is called Gu Zhuangzi () or Fangkuai Zhuangzi ().