Chinese Characters

Pictograms

Pictograms

Ideograms

Ideograms

Numbers

Numbers

Compounds

Compounds

Compounds

Homophones

Homophones

Modern Words

Modern Words

Chinese script is made up of characters that represent a complete word. It is used for most of the languages of China (Mandarain, Cantonese, Wu, etc) as well as Japanese, where it is called Kanji.


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External Chinese Links

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Chinese Characters
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