Comments on: How many alphabet letters are there in Chinese language?

By: Elena S

Elena S — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:57:20 +0000

Chinese is 0 letters…
because…
Chinese words consists of characters, not letters…

By: W J

W J — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:57:20 +0000

the Chinese language does not have an alphabet.

By: davide405

davide405 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:57:20 +0000

Chinese does not use an alphabet, it is written with characters, and that is not just a semantic difference.

There are approximately 47,035 characters in the Kangxi dictionary, but a person can be considered fully literate in Chinese with a knowledge of as few as three to four thousand of those.

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