Alphabetic writing

Japanese: alphabetic writing(英語表記)alphabeticwriting
Alphabetic writing

...In the Chinese writing system, kanji characters represent one syllable, so they appear to be both word characters and syllabaries. However, syllabaries are, in principle, free variations in which the individual characters are not directly linked to meaning, and even if different characters are used to represent the same syllable, such as in variant kana, their usage is not fixed for each word. In contrast, kanji characters, in principle, use different characters for different words.
[Phonetic alphabet]
Alphabetic writing is represented by the Roman alphabet, and each character has the property of analyzing the sounds of a word and expressing them as phonemes, as in the Japanese word 'head', which is written as 'atama' in five Roman letters. The name 'monophonic writing' is avoided because it is not common to write many single sounds with many phonetic variations, and what is expressed is closer to a phoneme, the smallest phonological unit in each language.

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "alphabetic writing" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…漢字は中国語の表記において1字が1音節を表すから単語文字であると同時に音節文字であるかにみえるが,音節文字は原則として個々の字が直接に意味と結びつかず,〈変体仮名〉のように同じ音節を表す異なる字体が用いられてもその用法が単語ごとに定まることのない自由な変種であるのに,漢字は原則として単語の違いに応じて異なる字が用いられるという点で区別される。
[音素文字]
 〈音素文字alphabetic writing〉はローマ字で代表され,日本語の〈頭〉という単語がローマ字では〈atama〉と5字で書かれるように,個々の字が単語の音を音素の単位にまで分析して表記する性質をそなえている。単音文字という名が避けられるのは,音声学的に変種の多い数多くの単音を書き分けることはないのが普通で,その表すところがそれぞれの言語における音韻論的最小単位である音素に近いからである。…

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