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

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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.

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