{"id":738,"date":"2007-06-14T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/scripts-related-to-chinese-characters-an-article\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T21:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T13:48:31","slug":"scripts-related-to-chinese-characters-an-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/scripts-related-to-chinese-characters-an-article\/","title":{"rendered":"scripts related to Chinese characters &#8212; an article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp028_chinese_scripts.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2007\/06\/character_scripts.gif\" style=\"width: 225px; height: 258px; float: right;\" alt=\"sample of some of the scripts discussed in the paper; click to view the article\" \/><\/a>The most recent rerelease from Sino-Platonic Papers is <a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp028_chinese_scripts.html\">The Family of Chinese Character-Type Scripts<\/a>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/readings\/zyg.html\">Zhou Youguang<\/a>, one of the main people behind the creation of Hanyu Pinyin. So it&#8217;s no surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/index.php?s=youguang\">his name has come up before in Pinyin News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article, from September 1991, categorizes and briefly discusses more than a dozen scripts derived from Chinese characters, most of which were used inside China by non-Han people. <\/p>\n<p>The link above is to an HTML version. The original format of the article is preserved in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp028_chinese_scripts.pdf\">PDF file<\/a> (650 KB). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent rerelease from Sino-Platonic Papers is The Family of Chinese Character-Type Scripts, by Zhou Youguang, one of the main people behind the creation of Hanyu Pinyin. So it&#8217;s no surprise that his name has come up before in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/scripts-related-to-chinese-characters-an-article\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4,12,15,46,112,28,95,55,128,31,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aborigine-languages","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-classical-chinese","category-kana","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-literacy","category-sino-platonic-papers","category-writing-systems","category-zhuang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}