writing system

基本解释

The writing system is not a pan-dialectal written form that ties all varieties of Chinese together, as many believe.
书写体系并非如许多人认为的那样，是汉语各种分支方言结合起来的泛方言书写形式。
Normally when foreign words and sounds are imported into a language, they are rendered into that language's writing system.
一种语言引进外来词和语音时，通常将其翻译成该语言的书写系统。
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，书写似乎出现的时间更晚，关于象形文字书写系统最早的记录只能追溯到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.
有时候基本单位是一个词组，有时候则是一个音素,也就是在写作的研究中的,一个音节。
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