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Chinese doesn't have an alphabet, that is, a set of letters each of which represents a set of sounds. Instead, it has "characters", i.e., a set of symbols each of which represents a word or idea. The advantage of this is that the same character is used to represent the same word in various different Chinese dialects (such as Mandarin), even though the pronunciations in the these dialects may be different and therefore mutually unintelligible. Obviously no single person invented the characters -- they must have gradually developed over a period. By the way, Chinese is often written by transliterating the characters into Roman letters; the commonest system for doing this is called "pin-yin". This makes the language easier and cheaper to type or print.
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What is the Chinese alphabet order?
There is no Chinese alphabet order at all no alphabet at all . They use symbols to represent stuff.
Who invented American alphabet?
me. -alphabet inventor
How many letters does the Chinese alphabet have?
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.
What the a to z Chinese letter?
Chinese language does not have letters, so there is no equivalent of the English, or any other, alphabet in Chinese. Alphabet is used only to transcribe Chinese pronunciation in the pinyin system.
Who invented the hindi alphabet?
The Hindi alphabet is known as Devanāgarī script and is derived from sanskrit. No one knows who invented it.
How do you write Korean alphabet?
The Korean alphabet was invented in the fifteenth century and has roots in the Chinese alphabet. Each sound is represented by a symbol or letter., which are put together to form words.
How many symbols in Chinese alphabet?
There is roughly about 47,035 characters in the Chinese alphabet.
What is the Chinese alphabet order?
There is no Chinese alphabet order at all no alphabet at all . They use symbols to represent stuff.
If the Chinese invented printing - why are they not credited with the creation of an alphabet?
Because what the created was not alphabetic writing. It was pictographic writing. An alphabet represents sounds. Pictograms represent whole words or ideas.
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.
Who invented American alphabet?
me. -alphabet inventor
Where is a in the Chinese alphebet?
No such thing as the Chinese alphabet you idiot
How many letters does the Chinese alphabet have?
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.
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.
