bitmaps for Victor Yeh's phonetic [Mandarin] transcription

15 Jul 2018 20:55 by volodymyr.velyky

These are tiny bitmap glyphs for the 85 letters of Victor Yeh's "Phonetic Chinese Language," which can be seen here:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US5175803-28.png

Note to self: http://typecast.com/preview/google/Noto%20Sans is a good way to get tiny tiny characters to screenshot and magnify and borrow from.

https://www.google.com/patents/US5175803 outlines the system. Through a built-in

system of spelling variation, plus a collection of letters that double as semantic

determinatives, Yeh's "Phonetic Chinese Language" provides a short spelling (max

4 letters, freq weighted avg 2.4; 3 keystrokes avg to type) for each unique character.