Kyoto University Research Information Repository: ベトナムの民族俗字「字喃」の構造とその淵源'Chu Nom, ' the former system of writing invented by borrowing the principles and forms of the Chinese character, really means "vulgar script" or "southern character, " in contrast to 'Chu Nho, ' meaning "Confucianist scholars' script." I have been considering why 'Chu Nom' was not established as the Vietnamese orthography like the similar Japanese demotic script Kana but was replaced by 'Quoc Ngu
