General Chinese is a way to write all major varieties of Chinese invented by Yuen Ren Chao (趙元任). It can also be used to write the pronunciations of Chinese characters in Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese.
There are two versions of General Chinese: General Chinese Syllabary (Tung-dzih Xonn-dzih), which uses Chinese characters phonetically, and includes 2,082 characters, and General Chinese Romanization (Tung-dzih Lo-maa-dzih), which uses the Roman alphabet and indicates tones with spelling.
The General Chinese Syllabary can be used to write Standard Written Chinese, which is based on Mandarin, and Classical Chinese. It is only used by a few hobbyists and groups.
Download an alphabet chart for General Chinese (Excel)
Renren sraeng er dzihyeu, dzae zunqiem huo giuanlih-zhag itliut bhiengdeg. Tamen fuhyeo liisieq huo liangsim, bhieg ing yii xiuengdhee cuanxey de ziengzhen huhsiang duydhae.
人人生而自由，在尊嚴和權利上一律平等。他門付有里性和良心，並應以兄弟關系的精神互相對待。
人人生而自由﹐在尊嚴和權利上一律平等。他們賦有理性和良心﹐並應以兄弟關係的精神互相對待。
人人生而自由,在尊严和权利上一律平等。他们赋有理性和良心,并应以兄弟关系的精神互相对待。
Rénrén shēng ér zìyóu, zài zūnyán hé quánlì shàng yīlǜ píngděng. Tāmen fùyǒu lǐxìng hé liángxīn, bìng yīng yǐ xiōngdì guānxì de jīngshén hùxiāng duìdài.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
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Information about General Chinese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Chinese
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lotem/zime/master/zime-data/tungdzih/tungdzih-keywords.txt
https://langwiki.org/tools/dict/
Written Chinese: Oracle Bone Script, Simplified characters, Bopomofo, Types of characters, Structure of written Chinese, Evolution of characters, How the Chinese script works, Xiao'erjing, General Chinese
Spoken Chinese: Mandarin, Dungan, Wu, Shanghainese, Wenzhounese, Yue, Cantonese, Weitou, Min, Jian'ou, Taiwanese, Teochew, Fuzhounese, Puxian, Hakka, Xiang, Gan, How many people speak Chinese?
Other Chinese pages: Chinese numbers (數碼) | Chinese classifiers (量詞) | Electronic dictionaries | Chinese links | Books: Chinese characters and calligraphy | Cantonese | Mandarin, Shanghainese, Hokkien and Taiwanese
Page created 02.08.22. Last modified: 26.12.22
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