The Manchu alphabet was also used to write Chinese. A modern example is in "Manchu: a Textbook for Reading Documents", which has a comparative table of romanizations of Chinese syllables written in Manchu letters, Hànyǔ Pīnyīn and Wade–Giles. Using the Manchu script to transliterate Chinese words is a source of loanwords for the Xibe language. Several Chinese-Manchu dictionaries contain Chinese characters transliterated with Manchu script. The Manchu versions of the "Thousand Character Classic" and "Dream of the Red Chamber" are actually the Manchu transcription of all the Chinese characters.