Sunday 30 March 2014

Chinese Characters

How many Chinese characters are there altogether? Around 50,000


How many characters does an educated person know? About 3,000


How old are Chinese characters? They were created in about 12,000 B.C


Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? Because some of them are actually pictures.


What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’? electric and vision 电视 


What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? woman and child.


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