Jul 01 2009
Where is the Chinese Alphabet?

In any single month, more than 10,000 people search for the “Chinese alphabet” on the internet.
Question is:
Does the Chinese language have an alphabet?
If so, where is it?
Why don’t I “see” it?
To answer the above questions, let’s look at how Chinese writing evolved over the ages.
At the beginning, societies created symbols to refer to simple things. [...]