Zhuyin is indeed inspired/influenced by hiragana/katakana https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh/%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E8%99%9F https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh/%E6%

Zhuyin is indeed inspired/influenced by hiragana/katakana https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh/%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E8%99%9F https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh/%E6%B3%A8%E9%9F%B3%E7%AC%A6%E8... But it wasn’t created by/for Taiwanese specifically, by that time Taiwan was under Japan’s rule and they were learning Japanese at the schools. Indeed it was imported back into Taiwan when KMT fled there. PRC then went on its own jounery of inventing its own Romanization scheme for Chinese. They once almost chose Cyrillic alphabet because its ideological alliance with Soviets, but Latin script still won at the end of day, because the scholars were convicned it is more widely used and more useful.