[salamandersauce]

I don't know any Chinese really so I can't comment too much. Taiwan has a syallbary called Bopomofo and PRC has Pinyin but I think those are only really ever used for typing/teaching. Parts of Chinese characters do have a phonetic component typically and from what I've heard this maps better onto Chinese than Japanese where possible sound could have very little or nothing to do with the phonetic component. So you could maybe write another character with that component maybe?