zhuyin-zimuhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zhuyin-zimu_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezhuyin zimu, n.
First published 1986; not fully revised

zhuyin zimunoun

  1. 1938–
    The national phonetic alphabet of China made up of symbols based on Chinese characters, first adopted in 1918. Also elliptical as zhuyin.
    1. 1938
      North Mandarin colloquial, Peking dialect, or Kuoyü... Chu Yin phonetics... Wang Chao phonetics... Roman characters.
      Book Thousand Tongues (Amer. Bible Soc.) 89/1
    2. 1960
      A set of thirty-nine phonetic symbols, chu-yin tzu-mu, officially promulgated in 1918 by the government.
      Chang-tu Hu et al., China v. 107
    3. 1968
      The purpose of the first official Chinese phonemic transcription called zhùyīn zìmŭ ‘Pronunciation Alphabet’..was to serve as a stepping stone towards learning the characters, and also as a tool for promulgating the National Language.
      P. Kratochvíl, Chinese Language Today v. 168
    4. 1978
      The thirty-nine letters of the zhuyin zimu alphabet were taken from old, very simple Chinese characters.
      Nagel's Encycl.-guide: China (ed. 3) 95

zhuyin zimu, n. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

zhuyin zimu, n. was last modified in December 2024.