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'Phags-pa
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English
+ script
Alternative forms
en Phags-pa
en ḥPʻags-pa ḥP'ags-pa academic
Etymology
From en bo འཕགས་པ noble.
Proper noun
1
An alphabet designed in the 1200s by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty.
Translations
Chinese:
Literary Chinese: lzh-lit 蒙古新字lzh check whether this should be lzh-lit ("Literary Chinese") or lzh ("Classical Chinese", < c. 200 AD), lzh-lit 國字
Mandarin: cmn 八思巴文, cmn 八思巴字
German: de Phagpa-Schrift f
Mongolian: mn дөрвөлжин үсэг, mn дөрвөлжин бичиг
en Alphabets History of China