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Chinese can be written like English (left to right, top to bottom, horizontally) and like Japanese (right to left, top to bottom, vertically). Things like books can be written in either way, while things like signs tend to be horizontal. If the characters look stacked on top of each other, read it vertically. If the characters are in horizontal rows, read it just like English.
A Chinese sentence is made of a group of characters (a character is roughly equal to a word in English). Each character can be a word, idea, word particle, etc (的 is often used to show ownership, similar to the English apostrophe. Ex: That's Joe's book). As in English, words in Chinese can be single or compound words, with compound being far more common.
For comparison:
English: foreign
Chinese: 外国 (wài guó)
The first character means 'outside' or 'eternal' and the second character means 'country' or 'nation'. So when combined the idea is something like 'outside country' or foreign.
What else can I help you with?
Do Chinese people read like English people or what?
yes Chinese people read just like us if they know englishleft to right.
Do Chinese people read from left to right?
yes
What way do Chinese people read?
Chinese people read from top to bottom and from right to left, with text being traditionally written vertically. However, modern Chinese text is predominantly read horizontally from left to right, like English.
Do Chinese people read up and down?
The Chinese language is read from up to down.
Can Chinese language be read by people who speak different dialect?
Yes, all dialects of Chinese have basically the same written language.
Why are china's licence plates in English?
because some people from antarctica cant read Chinese
Why do they have Chinese Lanterns?
People in China have Chinese lanterns because it let's the bad luck go away and gives them good luck, as they (meaning Chinese people who celebrate it) wrote their wishes on the lantern.Search up on this website (wiki answers) the question "Why do they have Chinese lantern festivals" and read what it says.
How is Chinese read?
Traditionally, Chinese was read vertically, top to bottom, like this:HELLONowadays, Chinese is read left to right. Newspapers, magazines and many books are printed this way.Hope this helps!-The Mandarin Professor
Do you capitalize the word Chinese in a sentence?
Our neighbours are Chinese. They eat Chinese food, read Chinese books and speak Chinese.
What are the cultural similarities between maori English Chinese people?
A good read would be Jade Taniwha by a NZ Maori / Chinese author Jenny Bol Jun Lee.
Why do the Chinese read right to left?
Chinese traditionally read from top to bottom and right to left in columns. This was the traditional writing format in ancient China, which has influenced modern Chinese printing and calligraphy. However, modern Chinese is commonly written from left to right, following the standard Western format.
How do you read education in Chinese?
Mars
