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Zhongb: A Phonetically Transparent Romanization System for Mandarin Chinese with Built-in Homophone Disambiguation

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint 10 Feb 2026 English Publisher:Zenodo
Authors: Wong, Hock Chuan Sugianto;

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18580823 , 10.5281/zenodo.18580824

Zhongb: A Phonetically Transparent Romanization System for Mandarin Chinese with Built-in Homophone Disambiguation

Abstract

This paper presents Zhongb (中b), a novel romanization system for Mandarin Chinese designed around three core principles: phonetic transparency aligned with IPA conventions, full ASCII compatibility, and a deterministic homophone disambiguation mechanism that assigns every morpheme a unique written form.

Keywords

romanization, tone encoding, phonetic transcription, Mandarin Chinese, homophone disambiguation, writing systems

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