QuillBot's AI translator prevents errors and ensures your translations are context-aware. Trusted by 35+ million students, professionals, and content writers worldwide. The Phagspa script or ʼPhags-pa script [1] is an alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty, as a unified script for the written languages within the Yuan.
Part of the Phagspa inscription of a Sanskrit Buddhist text at Juyongguan dated 1345
There were three different styles of writing in the Phags-pa alphabet: the Standard script, which was used in Chinese and Mongolian printed texts and documents; the Seal script, which was used mainly for official seals, and also for some inscriptions on monuments; and the Tibetan script style, which was used mainly for books titles and temple in. Phags-pa Script : The Forty-One Phags-pa Letters Introduction The biography of the 'Phags-pa lama in the History of the Yuan Dynasty (compiled 1369-1370) states that the Phags-pa script comprises 41 letters, but does not go into any further detail. The Phags-pa script is named after its creator, the Tibetan lama known by the title of 'Phags-pa Lama (འཕགས་པ་བླ་མ་) "Reverend Lama" (transliterated as Bāsībā 八思巴 [also 巴思八 or 拔思巴] in Chinese). The correspondence between Uighur letters and Phags-pa letters given by Tao Zongyi is summarised in Table 1 after the translation. Illustration 1 : Facsimile of Tao Zongyi's Description of the Old Uighur Script. Source : Shushi Huiyao 書史會要 vol. 8 folio 7a-8a. Transcription. 畏吾兒字雖有二十餘母，除重名外止有一十五音.
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The 'Phags-pa script (Mongolian: дөрвөлжин үсэг "Square script") is an alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty, as a unified script for the written languages within the Yuan. Phags-pa Chinese is the earliest form of the Chinese language to be written in a systematically devised alphabetic script. It is named after its creator, a brilliant thirteenth-century Tibetan scholar-monk who also served as political adviser to Kublai Khan. Phags-Pa for Modern Mandarin (Hànyǔ bāsībā wén / 汉语八思巴文) was designed by Arthur Li in 2020. It is an alternative way to write Mandarin Chinese with the old Phags-Pa script, which was created by Drogön Chögyal in 1260 to write Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, Sanskrit and Persian Notable features Type of writing system: alphabet The ʼPhags-pa or ḥPʻags-pa script It was used to write and transcribe varieties of Chinese, the Tibetic languages, Mongolian, the Uyghur language, Sanskrit, probably Persian, during the Yuan era. For historical linguists, the documentation of its use provides clues about the changes in these languages. Its descendant systems include Horizontal square script, used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit.
A GILT BRONZE 'PHAGSPA SCRIPT' PANEL
Phags-pa is a Unicode block containing characters from the 'Phags-pa script promulgated as a national script by Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty. It was used primarily in writing Mongolian and Chinese, although it was intended for the use of all written languages of the Mongol Empire. Block Chinese transcriptions of Mongolian and 'Phags-pa script have been suc cessfully adopted by L. Ligeti. Ligeti's first work, written in Hungarian,58 was never in general dis tribution, but his article on the Po-chia-hsing (abbr. PCH) in the 'Phags-pa script was an advance upon the achievements of Dragunov,
Phags-pa Chinese is the earliest form of the Chinese language to be written in a systematically devised alphabetic script. It is named after its creator, a brilliant thirteenth-century Tibetan scholar-monk who also served as political adviser to Kublai Khan. The 'Phags-pa script was created by the Tibetan monk known as 'Phags-pa (1239-1280) at the behest of Kublai Khan between 1260 and 1269. It was intended for use as the "National Script" of the Mongolian Empire, and was used during 13th and 14th centuries for writing Mongolian, Chinese, Uighur, Tibetan and other languages.
BabelStone 'Phagspa Script Description
The script was invented by 'Phags-pa (1235/39-1280, Chinese: Basiba 八思巴), a Tibetan prince and lama who was appointed national preceptor (guoshi 國師) Qubilai Qan (r. 1260-1294), the Mongol emperor of the Yuan dynasty 元 (1279-1368).The alphabet was created in 1269 as a script for Mongolian, but also as a tool for the transcription of other languages, like Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit. The Seal Script Style. At the same time that the Phags-pa Lama devised the standard script in about 1269, he or someone else devised a pseudo-archaic "seal script" form of the letters (known as menggu zhuanzi 蒙古篆字 in Chinese). These letters mimic the labyrinthine strokes of Chinese "seal script" ideographs, and are found mainly on official seals dating from the Yuan (1271-1368) and.
