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Chinese Characters and Chinese Words
Chinese character is the writing script of Chinese Language. There are 7 Chinese characters in the following presentation.The pronunciation of a Chinese character is called a syllable. There are 7 syllables in the following presentation.
A word is a unit of meaning. There are 5 Chinese words in the following presentation.
A Chinese word may be composed of one or more than one characters:
A Chinese word composed of a character is monosyllabic.
A Chinese word composed of two characters is bisyllabic.
A Chinese word composed of three characters is trisyllabic.
A large proportion of words in Modern Hanyu are composed of two characters and thus bisyllabic.
