Chinese Alphabet - Alphabetic Transcription of Chinese

Alphabetic Transcription of Chinese

For the use of the Latin alphabet to transcribe Chinese, see:

• Romanization of Chinese
  • Romanization of Chinese in Taiwan
• Hanyu Pinyin (a.k.a. Pinyin) - the modern international standard for transcription of Standard Chinese
• Wade-Giles
• Yale Romanization

For the use of Cyrillic script 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 (often called an alphabet but actually a semi-syllabary) see:

• Zhuyin fuhao (a.k.a. bopomofo or Zhuyin)