Sunday 30 March 2014

Chinese Characters

How many Chinese characters are there altogether?  Over 50,000 characters
How many characters does an educated person know? Knows about 8,000 characters
How old are Chinese characters? 3,500 years
Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? Because some of them are pictures and not letters
What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? Woman + Child = Good

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’?  Electric vision

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