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Chinese, unlike Western languages like English, French, and German, does not have an alphabet. Instead, it has something known as a "character system" that is composed of thousands of different symbols (known as characters) that each have a different pronunciation. So, rather than spelling, Chinese write characters. The Chinese word for "one" is 一 (get it, it's just one line). This is pronounced "yi1" in Hanyu Pinyin and "i" in Gwoyeu Romatzyh.

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