alphabet
字母
definition
noun
Thai is a tonal language, and its alphabet is derived from Mon and Khmer scripts.
a set of letters or symbols in a fixed order, used to represent the basic sounds of a language; in particular, the set of letters from A to Z.
translation of 'alphabet'
noun
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字母
example
The odd bit is that English is harder to read than any other language using the 'alphabet' .
Chinese does not have an 'alphabet' , but characters representing words, formed from stokes symbolising syllables.
DNA's 4-letter 'alphabet'
Thai is a tonal language, and its 'alphabet' is derived from Mon and Khmer scripts.
A four-letter 'alphabet' might seem a rather limited system for writing complex messages.
Each cell is blank or contains one symbol from a finite 'alphabet' of symbols.
I used to try and cram the whole twenty-four letter 'alphabet' into one little symbol.
Did I know that the place has not only its own language but its own 'alphabet' ?
This is the musical 'alphabet' from which the language of music ultimately is derived.
The flags are held, arms extended, in various positions representing each of the letters of the 'alphabet' or numbers.
Mrs Sulley taught me the letters of the 'alphabet' and the sounds they represented.
the first letter of the 'alphabet'
In two or three months, all you get is a brief idea of the 'alphabet' of a language.
If we assign numerical values to the 'alphabet' in order, the letters HUM added together would yield 42.
Czech is one of a group of Slavic languages that use the Roman rather than the Cyrillic 'alphabet' .
DNA's 4-letter 'alphabet'
For the present we are concentrating on ciphers where the basic symbols are the letters of the English 'alphabet' .
The phonetic 'alphabet' is almost as hard to master as the new language itself.
a phonetic 'alphabet'
the Roman 'alphabet'
These deals allowed Asians to use their own languages and 'alphabets' , rather than numbers or English, when surfing the web.
When learning to read, many preschool age children recognize letters in 'alphabets' (or characters in non alphabet languages) long before they are able to read.
The curve of the exterior wall is dressed in gray granite on which the 'alphabets' , hieroglyphs and symbols of over 120 languages are etched.
Different languages have different 'alphabets' ; different cultures use different calendars.
Castle painstakingly inked real and altered alphabets; 'alphabets' that look letterpressed, so finely are they executed.
Female nudes that appear repeatedly in his works, both paintings and sculptures, are not erotic; they are 'alphabets' for a powerful political statement.
We created fonts for the 'alphabets' of both languages so that the letters were defined using the same basic components (vertical, diagonal, and horizontal lines).
Languages have 'alphabets' , or character repertoires, but computers deal with digits.
Thuriam's Medical coding consists of combination of numbers and 'alphabets' adhering to different coding standards.
Modern scientific studies find that only the brain's left hemisphere is active in speaking foreign languages made up of 'alphabets' .
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