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Written Chinese is not an alphabetic script. Rather, it is a logographic script based on Chinese characters, though there also exist alphabetic systems to transcribe spoken Chinese.
Alphabetic Transcription of Chinese
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- Hanyu Pinyin (a.k.a. Pinyin) - the modern international standard for transcription of Mandarin Chinese
- Wade-Giles
- Yale Romanization
For the use of the Cyrillic alphabet to transcribe Chinese, see:
For the use of the Arabic alphabet to transcribe Chinese, see:
For another phonetic script in widespread use in Taiwan, though not an alphabet, see:
- Zhuyin fuhao (a.k.a. bopomofo or Zhuyin)
See also
References
- "Does Chinese have an alphabet?". Zhongwen.com - Chinese characters FAQ. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
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