How many letters are in the Chinese alphabet?

Chinese doesn't have an alphabet in the same way that English does. It uses a system of characters called 汉字 (hànzì), which are logographic (each character represents a word or morpheme).

Here's a breakdown:

* Traditional Chinese has around 50,000 characters, but only about 3,500 are commonly used.

* Simplified Chinese has around 3,500 characters in common use.

Therefore, it's not accurate to talk about the number of letters in the Chinese "alphabet." It's better to think of it as a system of characters that represent words or parts of words.