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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

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 of Mandarin Chinese
• 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

See also

• Chinese character classification

References

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

• Disambiguation pages
• Chinese language