Burt: The characters for mountain and tree look like the words they represent. There are around 3,500 common Mandarin characters. These are all made from different components. Components are like ...

Because Chinese characters are so complex, pinyin was developed by Chinese linguists as an official romanization system for the pronunciation of Mandarin. It renders Chinese characters in the ...

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