Romanization of Chinese
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title:
Romanization of Chinese
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Romanization of Chinese is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Chinese. Chinese uses a logographic script and its characters do not represent phonemes directly. There have been many systems using Roman characters to represent Chinese throughout history. Linguist Daniel Kane wrote, "It used to be said that sinologists had to be like musicians, who might compose in one key and readily transcribe into other keys." The dominant international standard for Standard Mandarin since about 1982
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Writing Chinese with the Latin alphabet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Chinese
date created:
2007-01-01T23:54:54Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T22:42:28Z
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