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Old 12-20-2014, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by juneroses View Post
Today when I picked up my Shang Hai order, the order tag was left on the bag. How interesting to see that the computer print out was in both English and Chinese (?) characters.
Ni Hoa Ma !
It's called HANZI and it's the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world.
The Yitizi Zidian dictionary has more than 106,000 characters.
You better know them all if you want to write in Chinese fluently.


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