Sawndip form of Zhuang din

Sawndip writers used more than one character for some Zhuang words.

Sawndip is a traditional way of writing Zhuang, a language spoken in southern China, with Chinese characters. Writers borrowed some Chinese forms and built others from their parts to represent Zhuang words and sounds; 䟓 is another recorded spelling of din.

Chinese text carved in the Zhuang region survives from 682 and 697; the later inscription includes locally nonstandard characters. Scholars differ on whether such early forms count as Sawndip or as precursors. For centuries, Sawndip writing has carried songs, scripture, stories and records. In 1957, an official Latin-alphabet writing system for Zhuang was introduced.