Sunday 30 March 2014

Chinese

How many Chinese characters are there altogether?
Altogether there are over 50,000 characters, though a comprehensive modern dictionary will rarely list over 20,000 in use.
How many characters does an educated person know?
An educated Chinese person will know about 8,000 characters.

How old are Chinese characters?
Chinese characters have been around for over 3,500 years.


Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs?
Chinese characters are called pictographs because they've been evolved.

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



What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’?
Vision and electric.

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