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It is a method of writing Chinese using the Roman (or western European) alphabet. The Chinese language does not have an alphabet, instead using ideograms (characters) which represent a word or syllable. Romanization systems convert these characters into spellings which non-Chinese can try to pronounce (usually with a small degree of success).
