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| has gloss | eng: General Chinese (通字) is a phonetic system invented by Yuen Ren Chao to represent the pronunciations of all major varieties of Chinese simultaneously. It can also be used for the Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese pronunciations of Chinese characters, and challenges the claim that Chinese characters are required for interdialectal communication in written Chinese. |
| lexicalization | eng: General Chinese |
| instance of | c/Phonetic alphabets |
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