Sunday 30 March 2014

Chinese mini lesson

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

How many characters does an educated person know? close to 8,000 you only need 23,000 to know how to read newspaper.

How old are Chinese characters? 5,000 years old Chinese characters.

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? its drawings of nature like the sun it involves every time and the tree heres the thats is in the present. 

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

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’? 电 with 话 = Television


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