Pinyin characters themselves have no specific meaning and only express pronunciation.Pinyin characters can be divided into the following two categories: halfSyllabic writingandAllophone text。
In 2019, most of the languages used in the world are written in PinyinUighur、Tibetan、Mongolian、UighurAnd so on are all alphabetic characters.
phonemic scriptBy forphonemeDevelop letters to record language,english、arabic、RussianIt belongs to this kind of writing.The spelling and pronunciation of English in alphabetic characters are seriously disjointed. English is the most irregular character in spelling and pronunciation in the world,FrenchBasic spelling rules, but there are too many silent letters in the words. The spelling is complicated. It is difficult to spell the words but write them according to the pronunciation.
Distinction from syllabic words
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Pinyin characters（Phonemic text）AndSyllabic writingThe difference is that one of the syllable charactersWord bitRepresents a syllable, such as a Japanese kana;One bit of alphabetic characters only represents onephoneme。[2]
type
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According to the phonetic unit represented by letters, the alphabetic characters can be divided into the following categories:
Half syllable words: the phonetic unit represented by a letter is between syllable andPhonemeBetween, such asNational Phonetic Alphabet。Vowel Tagged TextandConsonant phoneme textA letter represents a phoneme, but vowels and consonants are treated differently.Allophone text: One letter means onePhonemeNowadays, most of the existing writing systems belong to alphabetic characters.The most popular alphabetic writing system in 2019 islatin alphabet。[2]
