Chinese alphabet

Written Chinese is not an alphabetic . Rather, it is a script based on Chinese characters, though there also exist alphabetic systems to 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
* - the modern international standard for transcription of
*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:
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