The Chinese surname read as Sun (in Mandarin) is: 孙 sun(1)
The Chinese writing system is an open-ended one, meaning that there is no upper limit to the number of characters. The largest Chinese dictionaries include about 56,000 characters, but most of them are archaic, obscure or rare variant forms. Knowledge of about 3,000 characters enables you to read about 99% of the characters used in Chinese newspapers and magazines. To read Chinese literature, technical writings or Classical Chinese though, you need to be familiar with at least 6,000 characters.
Because the written language of the Chinese is incredibly complicated, there are tons of characters that must be memorized.
Rusi Guang has written: 'Chinese characters' -- subject(s): Chinese language, Writing 'Chinese wit, wisdom and written characters' -- subject(s): Chinese language, Writing
There are thousands of characters in Mandarin Chinese, but a common estimate is around 20,000 characters. However, you only need to know around 3,000 characters to read a Chinese newspaper.
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There is no letter a, chinese has characters for words, not for sounds.
Around or over 50,000 characters exist in the Chinese language.
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The word "language" in Chinese characters is written as "语言" (yǔyán).
'Xie xie' meaning 'thanks' in Chinese can be pronounced as 'shei shei'. The Chinese characters can be written as '谢谢' in simplified characters or '謝謝' in traditional Chinese characters.
China is written different ways depending where you are. In Traditional Chinese characters, China is written 中國. This is used in Taiwan and some overseas Chinese communities. In Simplified Chinese characters, used in China, it's written 中国.