To illustrate this sort of phonetic system, a phrase such as "I believe," might be rendered with an eye, a bee, and a leaf.

He argued that tones are an indispensable part of the Chinese phonetic system.

In Taiwan, it is known as "zhuyin", from the name of the phonetic system employed for this purpose there.

Where zhuyin is not used, other Chinese phonetic systems like pinyin are employed.

The phonetic system, grammatical structure and, to some extent also, the vocabulary, have been somewhat influenced.

While the phonetic system is easy to learn, choosing appropriate Chinese characters slows typing speed.

Like most systems of shorthand, Stiefografie is a phonetic system.

It is a phonetic system using longhand characters and punctuation.

As a result, the four syllables together have been used to indicate various phonetic systems.

However, the changes in pronunciation required by the simple phonetic system make the origins of other words more difficult to see.