Chinese Characters
中国文字
zhōng guó wén zì
The Chinese characters 中国文字 zhōng guó wén zì are mainly made up of radicals (basic symbols), pictograms and ideograms. There are 227 radicals (reflecting some common semantic or phonetic characteristics) when combined, in varied ways, can make up over 80,000 characters. It has been estimated that the mastery of 1000 characters would enable a person to grasp about 90% of the Chinese words.
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