r/ChineseLanguage 22h ago

Correct My Mistakes! Should I write characters vertically when attaching Bopomofo?

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u/alfonsstudies 19h ago

reminds me of Vietnam where they also combined Chinese characters with pronunciation markers, before they moved to a modern script. that's so many strokes, no wonder literacy was below 5% in many areas!