英漢字 — transcriber

英漢字 is a writing system for English built on Chinese principles: ordinary modern English, pronounced exactly as it is now, set in a mostly phonetic script composed from Chinese radicals. Most words are spelled by sound — Middle-Chinese phonetic roots in 左形右聲 blocks, with promoted cluster atoms — alongside the grammatical particles and the modal and copula paradigms. This page renders those deterministic layers live, and shows semantic calques for a curated set of primal, taboo, and esoteric words (死, 媾, 陰…), toggleable here. Full-character sound-borrows and most calques are a writer’s own choice, left to you. For the full account — origins, the spelling rules, the role of calques and borrows — see the write-up.