The Chinese language is one of the oldest in the world. Some of the characters look remarkably similar also! Check it out below.īefore getting into the juicy stuff, it’s worth taking a step back and looking at the history of Chinese.Īfter all, the country oozes history and culture and the Chinese characters and language plays a huge role in that.Ĭhapter 1 – The History of Chinese Characters/Chinese Alphabet There is no Chinese Alphabet – just thousands upon thousands of characters. One character on its own can be a word, but many words are made up of two, three or even more characters put together. T here is no such thing as the Chinese Alphabet.Ĭhinese is all about characters and we don’t put them together like we do with letters in our alphabets to make a word because these characters actually make up words themselves.Įach character is one syllable. In English we have 26 letters in the alphabet, in Russian we have 33 in the Cyrillic alphabet, but… OK first and foremost let’s set the record straight.
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