The Tibetan Writing has a 1300 year history and is widely disseminated and used. On Characters of Tibetan Writing System is a book specifically focusing on Tibetan text symbols, involving research in related fields like features of the characters, their structural features and application properties. The subtitle of this book is 'Alphabetic characters, pronunciations, ISO codes, sorting sequences, picture symbols, and transliterations'. In other words, the study of Tibetan characters must involve the study of their properties such as origin, forms, pronunciation, function and structure as well as their application properties like word frequency, code, sort and transferring. This research work constitutes a guidebook for those seeking knowledge about Tibetan characters.

Translated by: Zhibin Ding