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Alphabetic transcription of Chinese

For the use of the Latin alphabet to transcribe Chinese, see:

• Romanization of Chinese
  • Romanization of Chinese in Taiwan
• Hanyu Pinyin (a.k.a. Pinyin) - the modern international standard for transcription of Standard Chinese
• Wade-Giles
• Yale romanization of Mandarin

For the use of Cyrillic script to transcribe Chinese, see:

• Cyrillization of Chinese

For the use of the Arabic alphabet to transcribe Chinese, see:

• Xiao'erjing

For another phonetic script in widespread use in Taiwan (often called an alphabet but actually a semi-syllabary) see:

• Zhuyin fuhao (a.k.a. bopomofo or Zhuyin)

Under the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368), an alphabetic script called 'Phags-pa was used to write Late Middle Chinese (as well as Tibetan and Mongolian).

See also

• Chinese character classification
• Fanqie
• Transliteration into Chinese characters

References

To translate Chinese, see:

• Cyrillization of Chinese

• Transcription of Chinese