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2007-02-27 01:00:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Languages

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There are no Chinese characters (symbols) for "a" and "b" other than "a" and "b". . The Chinese use the Roman alphabet (a,b,c,d etc.) only to show the pronunciation of the Chinese characters (i.e., to transcribe the characters) because each Chinese character is a whole word, like 马ma for horse and 龙long for dragon, and the characters do not tell you how they are pronounced.

2007-02-27 02:24:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

If you mean like class A and class B... yes they have in Chinese character that express that idea. Or if you want something that is the Chinese pronunciation of a and b. Then nowadays that would be a and b. Chinese used to use a phonetic script to write the sounds until recently and these symbol look like abbreviated Chinese characters.
I should explain perhaps that Chinese is written in ideograms which are characters that have a meaning as well as a sound. So you cannot write in Chinese without a character that has no meaning but only a sound. Well, basically that is true except that there are characters that are meant to be taken as sounds like Oh! in Oh my! You can also use Chinese ideograms to express foreign words as the sounds of those words. For example there are ideograms for coffee. You are either mistaken then or you need to be more clear in what you want to know.

2007-02-27 20:43:10 · answer #2 · answered by madchriscross 5 · 0 0

like said before, Chinese symbols aren't broken into vowels and consonants, but words. There is however, a pronunciation set of alphabet used to teach pronunciation of the words (basically, there's 2 sets of symbols), which I learned too long ago to recall :)

2007-02-28 04:19:30 · answer #3 · answered by Ting 4 · 0 0

Silly girl, that's like asking what the english symbol is for "chow", or "tah", or "yang", .....

2007-02-27 11:12:23 · answer #4 · answered by profound insight 4 · 0 1

which symbol??I did not see anything

2007-02-27 10:07:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

try chinese-tools.com

2007-02-27 09:04:37 · answer #6 · answered by emma m 4 · 0 0

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