Kweikarne

Kweikarne is a romanisation system developed for Mandarin Chinese.

Alphabet
The alphabet consists of twenty-five letters, and it uses 20 out of 26 letters from pinyin. The letters K, W, X, Y do not occur in Kweikwarne (replacements are: C, U, CH, J).

Initials
In each cell below, the bold letters indicate Kweikarne, and the brackets enclose the symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Finals
Finals are the same in pinyin except y is replaced with j and w is replaced with u:

Pinyin er: Kweikarne el

Diacritical marks
Like pinyin, it uses diacritics to mark the four tones of standard Chinese. It also uses breve above z, c, s to distinguish the letters.