Written Chinese is not an alphabetic script.[1] Rather, it is a logographic script based on Chinese characters, though there also exist alphabetic systems to transcribe spoken Chinese.Good Characters' Chinese Alphabet Set
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Chinese people use a character-based writing system known as Chinese characters. Each character represents a word or a syllable and can convey both meaning and pronunciation. There is no Chinese alphabet like the Latin alphabet used in English.
The Chinese writing system does not have an alphabet like the English language. Instead, Chinese characters are logograms that represent words or morphemes. These characters are typically organized by radical and stroke count in dictionaries rather than alphabetical order.
Chinese does not have an alphabet like English. Chinese characters are instead represented by characters with specific meanings and pronunciations. These characters are combined to form words. Each character has its own pronunciation that is independent of an alphabet system.
In Mandarin Chinese, Pinyin is a system that uses the Roman alphabet to transcribe the pronunciation of Chinese characters. A person would input Pinyin on a keyboard, which then suggests Chinese characters based on the pronunciation. This way, users can easily type out Chinese characters despite the large number in the language.
The Chinese alphabet also known as 'Mandarin Phonetic Symbols' in Chinese is '注音符号'. In pinyin it is 'zhu yin fu hao'. Another name for it is the first four characters of the alphabet... 'bo po mo fo' or 'ㄅㄆㄇㄈ' The Chinese alphabet is rarely used outside Taiwan. And in Taiwan it is only used to teach children the proper pronunciation of Chinese characters. It consists of 37 letters and four different tones. Proper mixture of up to three letters and one tone will give you the proper pronunciation of any Chinese character.
The Chinese writing system does not have an alphabet, like the Latin script used in English. Instead, it uses characters representing words or parts of words. There are thousands of characters in the Chinese writing system, but a basic Chinese character dictionary usually contains around 7,000 characters.