So, if the Chinese don’t have an alphabet and use only pictograms comprising of over 6500 characters, how do they type on a keyboard? Do they have really large keyboards with over 6500 keys or do they just say “Screw Mandarin” and type in English (which can’t be true because I’ve seen Chinese characters on webpages/spam emails)? Is there some kind of algorithmic key pressing magic that goes on in order to produce said characters?
Isn’t Pinyin a romanisation method, i.e. writing Chinese using the Latin alphabet instead of Chinese glyphs?
Yes!
Is it used also for communication? I only know it’s being used for transcription of official documents like passports or addresses.
It’s only to input characters no one writes only pinyin except for foreigners