Unlike English words, the Chinese language, comprising of pictorams, ideogrammic, and phono-semantic characters, can form more actual words than characters. read more
Unlike English words, the Chinese language, comprising of pictorams, ideogrammic, and phono-semantic characters, can form more actual words than characters. Given Chinese is currently used in many regions including mainland China, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea, the answer addresses the historical context and number of characters as used in mainland China. read more
There’s definitely more to Chinese characters than meets the eye. Just imagine: knowing how to read and write Chinese gives you the ability to communicate with over 1.3 billion people! (Although the dialects and spoken language can vary from region to region, written language remains the same). read more