Hello Sulee, No it doesn't have an alphabet like English , it has instead Characters such as ： 我 在 中 etc... Each character represents a syllable, the character is a symbol standing for that syllable.The character could form a word or part of a word.Some words have 1 character , some have 2 ,3 ,4 ... Examples: 中 this is a word and is pronounced in English "Zhong" .You see here it represents 5 English letters, yet it is one character. It means middle. 国 is another character making the word "Guo" which means land. Some words will have 3 or 4 characters. 中国 This word consists of the 2 previous characters "Zhongguo" and means "China". Some other words consist of 3 or 4 characters: Examples: 中国人 "zhongguoren" and it means a Chinese person. 人 means person. Yet to make it possible for non Chinese to read those characters a romanized alphabet was developed and taught hand in hand with the characters to facilitate learning the language. It is called "pinyin" and is characterized by adding tones on each word (there are essentially 4 tones) to discriminate the pronunciation of words with the same letters , yet different accentuation and meaning. Example: 马 ma3 (third tone) means horse 妈 ma 1 (first tone) means mother 麻 ma2 (second tone) means sesame or to bother 骂 ma4 ( fourth tone) means to scold or abuse

Hi this site gives you an explanation and examples of the Pinyin alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin

It was, chinese has no alphabetics and grammar. But, it has been changed, chinese has developed the alphabetics and grammar used for teaching chinese in schools. There are two forms of alphabetics, the old form and new form. The old form is called Juyin, the new form is called pinyin.