How many letters does the Chinese alphabet have?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a Chinese alphabet. Chinese writing uses thousands of characters that represent whole words and ideas.

Chinese does have a phonetic system, called bo po mo fo, which has 37 characters, but this is not an alphabet.

Answer 2

The Chinese writing system does not have an alphabet like the English language. Instead, Chinese characters represent words or morphemes. Modern Chinese dictionaries list around 8,000 characters, with basic literacy requiring knowledge of about 2,000 commonly used characters.