Chữ Tây

Chữ Tây (チウ テイ, literally western characters), is the modern writing system for the. It is a that uses  Nishikana characters with diacritics to represent the Songese language. Some of the characters are also pronounced radically differently than in Standard Yashiman, and some characters also do not exist in Yashiman.

Introduced in the 1850s, Chu Tay was created by the Yamataian colonial government in Yamataian Ekuni to replace traditional Hua characters used to record Songese. Eventually, Chu Tay supplanted Hua characters as the primary method of writing Songese. While Hua characters are still used for decorative, historic and ceremonial value and as symbols of good luck, Hua characters have fallen into disuse in any other function in modern Dai Hoa in favour of Chu Tay.

, a new writing system based on the Anglian alphabet, has also emerged in the modern day, and is mainly used for transliteration purposes.