mini Chinese Lesson

Answer these questions

How many Chinese characters are there altogether? 

There are 50,000 characters.

How many characters does an educated person know? 

8,000 characters.

How old are Chinese characters? 

About 3,500 years old.

Why are some Chinese characters called pictographs? 

To simplify the words into pictures.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘good’? 

Woman & child are used to make good.

What 2 characters join together to make ‘television’? 

With vision and electronic vision make television