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Some early Chinese characters were pictographs (pictures of what they represent), but over the years have become more and more abstract. A few still bear a resemblance to the thing described, such as 人 (ren2) = person (looks like a simple stick man), 手 (shou3) = hand, or 口 (kou3) = a mouth or opening. Some which may have started as pictographs have been altered or simplified beyond recognition - e.g. 马 (ma3) = horse.
In modern Chinese, a character is essentially a word, though many Chinese words consist of two or even three characters together. Unlike phonetic languages, where the symbols represent the sounds, characters contain little or no clue to their pronunciation.
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