The pronunciation of Chinese Mandarin characters follows the official phonetic system called Pinyin which transcribes characters into the Latin alphabet. By defining the rules for Pinyin, the pronunciation of Chinese characters become less mysterious to learners.
There exist 210 semantic components that are used for dictionary look-up and classification of characters, and each semantic component forms on average 20 composite semantic-phonetic characters,
Phonetic components vary in regularity of correspondence between their sound value and that of the whole character, and this correspondence regularity for a given character and its phonogram is known as phonological regularity.
