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Can anyone explain chinese way of writing like what is a lologram and what is a phoneme alphabet?

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Can anyone explain chinese way of writing like what is a lologram and what is a phoneme alphabet?

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Chinese has a writing system that uses ideograms (pictorial characters) to represent syllables / words. ‘Ideogram’ is thus probably the word you are looking for, although it has lately lost favour to the benefit of ‘morpheme’, i.e. a sign that conveys meaning. The Chinese writing system enables speakers of different Chinese dialects to use the same written language in spite of the word sounds being different from dialect to dialect. A phonemic alphabet such as the Latin or Cyrillic alphabet, for example, has a close link between signs (letters) and sounds (phonemes). With phonemic alphabets, each sign represents one or more phonemes, both consonants and vowels, in the language they are used to write.

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