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How many letters does the Chinese alphabet have?

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There is no such thing as a Chinese alphabet. Chinese writing uses thousands of characters that represent whole words and ideas.

Chinese does have a phonetic system, called bo po mo fo, which has 37 characters, but this is not an alphabet.
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