Would someone of Chinese decent answer the following questions.?

Question

#1. How many letters or figures are there in the Chinese alphabet? #2. When writing sentenses from right to left,do the individual figures mean individual words, phrases or parts of sentenses? Thank you!

Answer 1

Mandarin Chinese have thousands of caracters, maybe 50000. But for your everyday life you only need less than 5000. As for the western alphabet, they use 25 letters. Normaly there is no V in Mandarin but they use it to mark the different sounds of the vowel U

One caracter means one word but once added with others it can make another word.

飞 : fei means to fly
机 : ji means machine
飞机 : feiji means a machine that flies so a plane

In fact today we don't write from right to left. It can mainly be found in old books.

Answer 2

Chinese does not use an alphabet. Each Chinese character represents a distinct word. Words are combined to create larger units of meaning. In China, writing is no longer from right to left. It is still done so in Taiwan.

Answer 3

I’m a chinese. The Chinese does have alphabet, but they are different with English alphabet, such as ‘a, o, e, ch, sh, zh…’, etc. The Chinese has 87019 characters rencently, but you only need to learn less than 3500 characters which are used frequently. As I known, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world, it is really hard to learn.

Answer 4

I am not chinese but I can speak mandarin. The chinese do not have an alphabet....the characters behave more like syllables than acutal words or letters...if you need to look up a chinese character in a dictionary you have to do it by stroke counting..which can be difficult..there are specific strokes and stroke orders in chinese characters....Try not to think of them as words or letters...they really are more like syllables...

Answer 5

As many people have stated already, there is no such thing as "Chinese alphabet." Instead, we have characters.

Each line of writings from right to left is read or written from top to bottom, which is the only difference between writings from left to right.
Example:

口湘
茶雲
噴掌
了不
出住
來，
。一

The sentence above is the same as

湘雲掌不住，一
口茶噴了出來。

(This is a scene in Dreams of the Red Chamber, when Nanny Liu jokes on herself, Shi Xiang Yun could not help laughing and spits out her tea)

Answer 6

theres are seriously billions of letters and i dun understand the second question

Answer 7

1. i think theres about 20 some letters in the alphabet...sry cant remember exactly...
2. it depends wut words are next to wut. its read the exactly the same way right to left(and up to down) and left to right just in different style.

hope that helps?