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Chinese writing is not an alphabetic script. Rather, it is a logographic script.

For information on the Chinese writing system, see:

• Written Chinese
• Chinese character
• Chinese character classification

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

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

For another phonetic alphabet in widespread use in Taiwan, see:

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

For other systems in use in Taiwan, see:

• Romanization of Chinese in Taiwan

References

1. "Does Chinese have an alphabet?". Zhongwen.com - Chinese characters FAQ. Retrieved 2008-05-31.

• Disambiguation pages
• Chinese language