phonetic Chinese alphabet

One shortcut is to use pinyin, a phonetic system used to transliterate Chinese words into the Latin alphabet.

有一个简单的办法就是用拼音输入法，这是一种用来将汉字转化为拉丁字母的音标系统。

But Denise Sabet, the vice general manager at Labbrand, suggests that the reasons include cultural differences and the Chinese reliance on characters for words, rather than a phonetic alphabet.

但朗标公司的副总经理Denise Sabet解释说：这源于文化差异，汉语是象形文字，而非字母文字；

Chinese languages do not have an alphabet. Instead they have a character for each word, which does not indicate pronunciation (although it sometimes contains a phonetic element).

中文没有字母系统，而是每一个“单词”都有一个对应的汉字，但是这些汉字并不表音(尽管有些汉字有声旁)。