A semi-syllabary is a kind of writing system that partly behaved as an alphabet, and partly as a syllabary. Most writing systems can be broadly divided into three categories: logographic, in which each character represents a morpheme as in Chinese, syllabic, in which each character represents a syllable as in Japanese hiragana, and alphabetic, in which each character represents a phoneme. Alphabets are in turn classified according to how they indicate vowels. Full alphabets: if they indicate v… (More on Semi-syllabary)