The term Sinoform writing is used here with reference to scripts used in reducing non-Chinese languages to writing, but developed on the basis of the Chinese script and predominantly making use of graphical elements pre-existing in the same. While not the only examples of their kind (for an overview including further cases not discussed here, such as Sino-Miáo 苗 and Sino-Sui, or Shuǐshū 水書, see, e.g., Zhōu 1989 or N…