writing system

基本解釋

The writing system is not a pan-dialectal written form that ties all varieties of Chinese together, as many believe.
書寫體系并非如許多人認為的那樣，是漢語各種分支方言結(jié)合起來的泛方言書寫形式。
Normally when foreign words and sounds are imported into a language, they are rendered into that language's writing system.
一種語言引進外來詞和語音時，通常將其翻譯成該語言的書寫系統(tǒng)。
Writing, on the other hand, appeared to come much later, with the earliest records of a pictographic writing system dating back to just 5000 years ago.
另一方面，書寫似乎出現(xiàn)的時間更晚，關(guān)于象形文字書寫系統(tǒng)最早的記錄只能追溯到5000年前。

Sometimes the basic unit is the phrase, but some other times the basic unit is the phoneme or if one's studying language as a system of writing it might be the syllable.
有時候基本單位是一個詞組，有時候則是一個音素,也就是在寫作的研究中的,一個音節(jié)。
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