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

For the use of the Cyrillic alphabet 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, though not an alphabet, see:

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

The Chinese 'alphabet' has more than 2000 characters in it this shows that the chinese people have so many differences in the language.

See also

• Chinese character classification
• Fanqie

References

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

• Disambiguation pages
• Chinese language