How many letters are in the chinese alphabet?


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In Chinese,there are no letters and no alphabet.The writing system consists of lg number of symbols used to represent words.

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Words expressed in Chinese pinyin use a set of 21 sounds called initials, and a set of 37 sounds called finals. ChaCha!

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In Chinese writing there are no letters and there is no alphabet. There are a huge amount of unique symbols. ChaCha!

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Some large dictionaries can contain as many as 60,000 characters for the Chinese alphabet. ChaCha is 24/7.

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In Chinese writing, there are no letters and there is no alphabet. The writing system consists of a large number of symbols MORE

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There are a ton of characters in Chinese - someone would need to know several thousand of them just to read a newspaper. ChaCha on

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The Chinese writing system is staggering. Even to be able to read a novel, it is absolutely necessary to learn at least (more)

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Only a few languages in the world do not use an alphabet, one of the languages being Chinese. Thank you for using ChaCha!

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