Sunday, 30 March 2014

Chinese questions

How many Chinese characters are there: here is over 50,000

How many characters would an educated person know: an educated person would probably know around 3,000 even an educated Chinese person would know about 8,000

How old are Chinese characters: quite old the first reconcilable Chinese characters are about over 3,500 years old

Are Chinese characters pictures?: yes and no some early Chinese characters are visual representations of concrete things and objects 

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