<story><title>The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times</title><url>https://twitter.com/rqou_/status/1101331385632022528</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilamont</author><text>For the unfamiliar, &amp;quot;ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ&amp;quot; is an example of &amp;quot;bopomofo&amp;quot; script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., &amp;quot;ㄨㄛˇ&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;wo3&amp;quot; which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for &amp;quot;我&amp;quot; and potentially other characters with the same pronunciation and tone. &amp;quot;我&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;me&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I am wondering if it was modeled after Hiragana&amp;#x2F;Katakana during Taiwan&amp;#x27;s colonial period?</text></item><item><author>swang</author><text>This is using the zhuyin keyboard which most likely means Taiwanese users since Taiwan is probably the sole user of the zhuyin keyboard.&lt;p&gt;Typing that out on a zhuyin keyboard gets you:
ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ&lt;p&gt;In Pinyin that is
wo3 de mi4ma3&lt;p&gt;Or in English
&amp;quot;my password&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tanilama</author><text>Zhuyin is indeed inspired&amp;#x2F;influenced by hiragana&amp;#x2F;katakana&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zh.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;zh&amp;#x2F;%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E8%99%9F&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zh.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;zh&amp;#x2F;%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E8...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But it wasn’t created by&amp;#x2F;for Taiwanese specifically, by that time Taiwan was under Japan’s rule and they were learning Japanese at the schools. Indeed it was imported back into Taiwan when KMT fled there.&lt;p&gt;PRC then went on its own jounery of inventing its own
Romanization scheme for  Chinese. They once almost chose Cyrillic alphabet because its ideological alliance with Soviets, but Latin script still won at the end of day, because the scholars were convicned it is more widely used and more useful.</text></comment>
<story><title>The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times</title><url>https://twitter.com/rqou_/status/1101331385632022528</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ilamont</author><text>For the unfamiliar, &amp;quot;ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ&amp;quot; is an example of &amp;quot;bopomofo&amp;quot; script, the phonetic system used to teach kids reading and pronunciation in Taiwan, and adapted to Chinese keyboard input (zhuyin). I learned it in the 1990s studying Mandarin in Taipei. It maps closely to pinyin romanization used in China (i.e., &amp;quot;ㄨㄛˇ&amp;quot; = &amp;quot;wo3&amp;quot; which is the sound in the Mandarin dialect for &amp;quot;我&amp;quot; and potentially other characters with the same pronunciation and tone. &amp;quot;我&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;I&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;me&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;I am wondering if it was modeled after Hiragana&amp;#x2F;Katakana during Taiwan&amp;#x27;s colonial period?</text></item><item><author>swang</author><text>This is using the zhuyin keyboard which most likely means Taiwanese users since Taiwan is probably the sole user of the zhuyin keyboard.&lt;p&gt;Typing that out on a zhuyin keyboard gets you:
ㄨㄛˇㄉㄜ˙ㄇㄧˋㄇㄚˇ&lt;p&gt;In Pinyin that is
wo3 de mi4ma3&lt;p&gt;Or in English
&amp;quot;my password&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrischen</author><text>I thought hiragana&amp;#x2F;katakana come from Chinese character radicals?</text></comment>