For 10 points, name this language group in the Sino-Tibetan family that includes Hokkien, Wu, Cantonese, and Mandarin and is used in the world's most populous nation.
One derivative of this language group is a predominately female script that uses phonetic characters, Nu Shu. Documents in this language group are sometimes annotated with ruby characters known as bopomofo. In this lanugage group, the semantic root of a character is known as the (*) radical. This language group's romanizations include Wade-Giles and Hanyu Pinyin. For 10 points, name this language group in the Sino-Tibetan family that includes Hokkien, Wu, Cantonese, and Mandarin and is used in the world's most populous nation.
One derivative of this language group is a predominately female script that uses phonetic characters, Nu Shu.
{Chinese} languages [or {Sinitic} languages]