I feel you, little Bad Hair Day Owl. 🤗🦉

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Due to layouts, it was changed to "IPA modifier tone letters for Chao's tone bar", so that both horizontal and vertical writing can be done in the correct way 😅

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Cantonese tone semicircle

My homemade 「声調半丸（tone semicircle）」 is a magical modification of the 「分四聲法（Modifier Letter Chinese Tone）」 of the 《康熙字典（Kāngxī Dictionary）》

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#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Zhou Youguang #周有光 (1906–2017), #economist, #linguist, and 'father of #Pinyin' #漢語拼音 之父, a system of #Romanisation for #Mandarin #Chinese, now recognised as the most common standard. #ChineseLinguistics #ChineseEconomics

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Zhou Youguang #周有光 (1906–2017), #economist, #linguist, and 'father of #Pinyin' #漢語拼音 之父, a system of #Romanisation for #Mandarin #Chinese, now recognised as the most common standard. #ChineseLinguistics #ChineseEconomics