Sunday 30 March 2014

Chinese characters

How many Chinese characters are there altogether?
50,000

How many characters does an educated person know?
8,000

How old are Chinese characters?
3,000 years ago

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs?
because some of them are pictures and not letters


What 2 characters join together to make ‘woman’?

woman and child


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