Sunday 30 March 2014

Chinese Characters

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

How many characters does an educated person know?
They would know about 8,000.

How old are Chinese characters?
Chinese characters have been around for over 3,500.

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs?
They are called that because of the Characters appearance resembles the thing itself.

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

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’?
Vision and electric.

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