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Chinese characters are called chữ Hán (𡨸漢), chữ Nho (𡨸儒; 'Confucian characters'), or Hán tự (漢字) in Vietnamese. Literary Chinese was used for all formal writing in Vietnam until the modern era, [155] having first acquired official status in 1010.
- Chinese
Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese...
- Pinyin
In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese...
- Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代标准汉语; traditional...
- Written Chinese
Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese...
- Transliteration of Chinese
Xiao'erjing uses the Arabic alphabet to transliterate...
- Chinese
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.
In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. Hanyu (汉语; 漢語) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official system used in China, Singapore, Taiwan, and by the United Nations.
The List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters is the current standard list of 8,105 Chinese characters published by the government of the People's Republic of China and promulgated in June 2013.
Standard Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代标准汉语; traditional Chinese: 現代標準漢語; pinyin: Xiàndài biāozhǔn hànyǔ; lit. 'modern standard Han speech') is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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.
Xiao'erjing uses the Arabic alphabet to transliterate Chinese. It is used on occasion by many ethnic minorities who adhere to the Islamic faith in China (mostly the Hui , but also the Dongxiang , and the Salar ), and formerly by their Dungan descendants in Central Asia .
