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Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.
In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...
Business forms provided by the government and corporations in Hong Kong often require filling out telegraph codes for Chinese names. The codes help to input Chinese characters into a computer. When filling up the DS-160 form for the US visa, the Chinese telegraph codes are required if the applicant has a name in Chinese characters.
Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary .
Bopomofo is also used to transcribe other Chinese dialects, most commonly Taiwanese Hokkien and Cantonese, however its use can be applied to practically any dialect in handwriting (because not all letters are encoded). Outside of Chinese, Bopomofo letters are also used in Hmu and Ge languages by a small number of Hmu Christians. [8]
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 hi
Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages. In Taiwan , the set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters .
It should be obvious that the caps are not the way chinese people write their names if we use the convention only once per article. --Ji ang 02:05, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC) Yes, of course Hong Kong names are often given as a mix of an English name with a Chinese name and the usual usage would be used, eg "Tony Leung Chiu Wai".