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I need the whole chinese alphabets from A to Z. please show it alongside the english alphabets.
Thanks in advance.

2006-11-26 21:57:38 · 11 answers · asked by Omar 1 in Society & Culture Languages

11 answers

Chinese alphabet doesnt work that way. It's more of a series of ideas than a series of phoenetical images. And there's more than a thousand characters, so it'd be a bit of work.

2006-11-26 22:02:09 · answer #1 · answered by KitsuneBoi85 2 · 2 1

So where is the Chinese alphabet and why is it so hard to find on the web? Well, the main reason is that there is no such thing as an alphabet in China. The English word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet (alpha and beta) because it was the Greeks who adopted this writing system from the Middle East and transmitted it, along with their culture, to the rest of Europe.

good luck ...i searched a while can't find anything

2006-11-27 06:10:22 · answer #2 · answered by donttalkjustplay05 4 · 1 0

There is no Chinese alphabet. Each character (kanji) in Chinese represents a word or idea. There are over 30000 kanji, although the Chinese government is trying to reduce this in order to improve literacy.

Try http://www.zhongwen.com/ for a detailed description.

Also note that while Japanese uses many of the same kanji as Chinese, it does have a phonetic system as well, although the sounds do not follow the English alphabet.

2006-11-27 06:36:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

There is no set alphabet for Chinese, but there is a pin yin system to help people learn Chinese pronunciation. It's based on Beijing dialect (for Mandarin) and has four tones, not including neutral tones. If you are trying to learn Chinese you should check out a local bookstore for CD and book sets, as well as buying a good dictionary. There are books available to help you with character recognition as looking up characters can be difficult depending on what part is considered the starting point of the character.

2006-11-27 08:03:38 · answer #4 · answered by Laoshu Laoshi 5 · 0 0

Somebody, Omar, I would say, was seriously trying to trick you. As others have mentioned before, there is no alphabet in Chinese and I would appreciate people stop trying to think that every language is like English and has alphabets. Not meaning you, somebody was just pulling your leg when they mentioned that. Though there is a pinyin system in Madarin, or Putonghua as some would like to put. Then you would have:
b, p, m, f
d, t, n, l
g, k, h
j, q, x
zh, ch, sh, r
z, c, s
i, o, u(with two dots, making it look like a German u with a umlaut)
a, o, e, ê
ai, ei, ao, ou
an, en
ang, eng, ong
Hoped this helped. Cheers!

2006-11-27 16:14:47 · answer #5 · answered by Mysterious 3 · 1 0

No Chinese does not has a set of alphabets as English does, it is made up of many, many different character that form meaning words. cheers.

2006-11-27 07:04:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Alphabet? do your homework, Chinese does not use an alphabet, but hundreds, even thousands of ideograms.

They don't even have much of a concept of phonetic writing. Your question is meaningless.

2006-11-27 08:00:51 · answer #7 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 0 0

Chinese has NO Alphabet. It has a set of logo-syllabic characters, but NO alphabet.

2006-11-27 07:19:23 · answer #8 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0 0

There is no 'alphabet' in Chinese
There are radicals: go to http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict_rs.html
however, if you are using the romanization (pinyin) you can use latin letters to spell words in Chinese. There are just over 400 sounds in Mandarin, each has a specific pinyin spelling.
http://www.pinyin.info/romanization/hanyu/basic.html to see all of them
and also you can look at this http://www.pinyin.info/romanization/hanyu/chinese_alphabet.html
which corelates into the IPA

2006-11-27 14:59:25 · answer #9 · answered by mike i 4 · 0 0

Chinese doesn't have alphabets!
It has pinyin system which helps learners pronounce.

2006-11-28 05:38:31 · answer #10 · answered by lollypop 2 · 0 0

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