Sunday 30 March 2014

Chinese characters

How many Chinese characters are there altogether? There is over 50,000 Chinese characters altogether.

How many characters does an educated person know? About 2000 or so Chinese characters.

How old are Chinese characters? 3,500 years.

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? Because they look like pictures.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? 女 (woman) + 子 (child) = 好 (good) 

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’?   + 视=  ‘television.




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