Chinese characters are an ideograph different from the alphabetic writing.

汉字是一种与拼音文字不同的表意文字。

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Chinese characters are not alphabetic writing but meaning-phonetic writing.

汉字不是拼音文字，而是意音文字。

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As a kind of old ideogram, the characteristics of Chinese character is different from European alphabetic writing.

作为一种古老的象形表意文字，汉字的特性与欧洲拼音文字迥然有别。

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Alphabetic writing is a brilliant invention that takes about two weeks -- in those languages that respect the principles.

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