FUN FACTS ABOUT THECHINESE LANGUAGE

There are almost 1 billion nativeChinese speakers making it the most

spoken language in the world.

Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language.

The word 'ma' has 4 different pronunciations

& meanings.

The Chinese language counts over 80,000 characters, but only

1/4 of these are used.

With 1,000 characters you can understand basic Chinese literacy

200 characters constitute 40% of basic Chinese language

(signs, news...)

One character represents one word and by combining 8 of these characters,you can form up to 32 words!

The shape of Chinese characters is inspired by the physicalappearance and meaning of the word.

穴

mā(媽)mother

mā(馬)horse

Fire + Mountain = VolcanoTree Woods(2 trees)

Forest(3 trees)

Crowd(3 persons)

Follow(2 persons)

Person

mā(罵)scold

má(麻)hemp

人 木 林 森 火 + 山 = 火山从 众

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