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They don't have one as such, it's just one huge collection of characters. They do have certain stroke (line) groups known as radicals which contribute to a character's meaning, though. Also, Chinese can be written in English characters known as pinyin, which shows the pronunciation.
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∙ 9y agoIndo-European languages, such as and including Modern English, have written forms corresponding to pronounced sounds by letter. Chinese and its descendent scripts such as Japanese utilize pictography. In pictography often elaborate script symbols represent objects and ideas rather than sounds.
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What is the eighth letter in the Chinese alphabet?
This is a trick question. Chinese does not use an alphabet. It is a pictographic system.
How many letters are in the alphabet does China have?
None. The Chinese "alphabet" contains words, not letters.
What letters aren't in the Chinese alphabet?
Chinese does not have an alphabet, unless you are referring to pinyin, which is used to represent Chinese sounds via the Roman alphabet.
Show the Chinese letter A?
Chinese is not written in alphabet, although it uses alphabet to transcribe Mandarin sounds -- a system known as pinyin.
Do Japanese and Chinese people have the same alphabet?
There is no such thing as a Chinese or Japanese alphabet. Japanese uses 2 syllabaries (symbols that represent whole syllables) and about 2000 Chinese characters. Chinese uses tens of thousands of characters.
How many symbols in Chinese alphabet?
There is roughly about 47,035 characters in the Chinese alphabet.
What is the eighth letter in the Chinese alphabet?
This is a trick question. Chinese does not use an alphabet. It is a pictographic system.
Where is a in the Chinese alphebet?
No such thing as the Chinese alphabet you idiot
What is different between china and Egypt's alphabet?
the china alphabet is Chinese: the Egypt alphabet is Egyptian
How you write the Chinese alphabet?
There isn't one, but there's a phonetic alphabet.
How do you write jerry in Chinese?
you cant... there isn't a Chinese alphabet
How many letters are in the alphabet does China have?
None. The Chinese "alphabet" contains words, not letters.
What was the Chinese alphabet?
china language
What letters aren't in the Chinese alphabet?
Chinese does not have an alphabet, unless you are referring to pinyin, which is used to represent Chinese sounds via the Roman alphabet.
What the a to z Chinese letter?
There is no single Chinese letter equivalent to the English alphabet letters from A to Z. Chinese characters are logograms that represent words or parts of words rather than individual sounds like letters in the alphabet. Each Chinese character corresponds to a syllable or a meaning.
How do you say aunt in Chinese?
In the Chinese alphabet the word "aunt" can be spelled with either the traditional or simplified Chinese alphabet. However, they both translate as the same word-- "guma".
Show the Chinese letter A?
Chinese is not written in alphabet, although it uses alphabet to transcribe Mandarin sounds -- a system known as pinyin.
