Zhuang characters, or
Sawndip , are
logograms derived from
Han characters and used by the
Zhuang people of
Guangxi,
China to write the
Zhuang languages for more than one thousand years. In
Mandarin Chinese, these are called
Gǔ Zhuàngzì or
Fāngkuài Zhuàngzì (; "square shaped Zhuang characters").
Sawndip (Sawndip: ) is a
Zhuang word that means "immature characters". The Zhuang word for
Chinese characters used in the
Chinese language is
sawgun (Sawndip: 倱; lit. "characters of the Han"),
gun is Zhuang for the
Han Chinese. The name "old Zhuang script" is usually used to distinguish it of the official alphabet based script
Standard Zhuang. Even now, in traditional and less formal domains, Sawndip is more often used than alphabetical scripts.