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It is to be understood that Chinese is a pictorial language, and it is also known that Chinese does not have alphabets like the west. The words of Chinese is made up of individual characters. The largest Chinese dictionary is known state that more than 23000 Chinese characters exist and initially, it...
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 It is to be understood that Chinese is a pictorial language, and it is also known that Chinese does not have alphabets like the west. The words of Chinese is made up of individual characters. The largest Chinese dictionary is known state that more than 23000 Chinese characters exist and initially, it has 56678 Characters throughout the Chinese history, but most of them are now considered to dead.

Another fascinating thing about the facts of the Chinese language is, these characters can be combined into more 300000 unique words in Chinese. There are roughly around 106000 Chinese words. But having said that, as a beginner in Chinese, one can start by learning 1000 characters as only 900 of the total number of characters are printed on the newspapers of china. To be thorough, learning around 3000 characters can be enough for the daily use of Chinese if you are planning to live or migrate to china

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Chinese language does not have alphabets; instead have characters. Chinese language have more than 20,000 characters however one must know 3000-4000 characters for everyday use. Hope this information is useful
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my be 1200 alphabets but am not sure
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There are no alphabets. There are characters. You can start with 100 characters in level 1 and gradually keep building on that.
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Chinese has no alphabets. It has characters. The largest Chinese Dictionary(Zhonghua Zihai) lists 85,568 Chinese . In fact, to speak like a native speaker you need to learn 5000 characters. This would require 3-4 years of hard work .
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There are no alphabet in Chinese Language. Only characters.
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There are no alphabets in Chinese.As its a pictorial langauage. And there are around 60,000 characters we have in chinese lang
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As many as 50,000-60,000 characters in Chinese, out of which 4000-5000 are daily used to master in reading a newspaper. Rest there are no alphabets in the language. It is a pictographic language, each word has a character dedicated. Over all, it is fun language if taught in a proper manner.
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chinese Language does not have alphabets. It has characters.There are between 50,000 to 60,000 characters in Chinese Language.
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Chinese does not have an phonetic alphabet like all Western languages. Instead, it has picture-based characters, each having a single-syllable pronunciation. Each character is used alone as a word or combined with other characters to form compound words.
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