Chinese writing is logographic, with characters often representing a single units of meaning called morphemes in linguistics. Alphabets, on the other hand, seek to represent the sounds of a language more directly. The letters of an alphabet generally reflect single phonemes, or the sounds that constitute the smallest units of a language.
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