The Reform of Characters (2)

From last discussion we may also understand that why the Mesopotamian choice cuneiform instead straight line. For the cuneiform had more expressive ability.

Still we can let the signal turning, make one like hook, the other like bend :

When we turning them we get 32 symbols,Then the new consonant will be : 

Every symbol can represent both a consonant and a vowel, for the Chinese phonetic symbol is always consonant in front and the vowel behind. (The red symbol indicates the tone.) Once you see the position, you know it is consonant or vowel. In the purple box, there are three samples for the new character. You may notice that in the first character, 放the radical is on the right side, so we put the phonetic on left side. The order is symbol of tone on the top (in red), the consonant in the middle, the vowel at the bottom. The pronunciation is [fàng] forth tone. The second sample is 点as the radical is at the bottom, so we put the phonetic on top, the order is symbol of tone on the left, in the middle is consonant, on the right is vowel. Sometimes the radical on top, we have to put the phonetic on bottom, it is still the same order that is tone first, consonant second and vowel the third. The pronunciation is [dǐan] third tone. The last sample is 鞭. Radical is on left, so we put phonetic on right, the order is symbol of tone on top, consonant in middle and at bottom is vowel. The pronunciation is [bīan] first tone. In rare case, we found some characters sharing one radical and one phonetic. In that case we just swap the position of radical and phonetic to make difference. Once you learn the 21 consonants and 35 vowels you may read any new character as well as a Chinese. It will be very clear even better than what Bernard Shaw dreamed letters for English.