Sunday 30 March 2014

Chinese Characters

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

How many characters does an educated person know? An educated Chinese person knows around 8,000 characters.

How old are Chinese characters?Chinese characters go back over 3,500 years.

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? Pictographs are the young Chinese Characters . In China they use the modern version of Chinese characters.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? The two characters that make good is woman child.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’? In Chinese characters television has two characters, electric vision.

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