Sorry for the ignorant question, but how do kids growing up in China learn to read and write Chinese? Aren’t there thousands of characters, with each one representing a whole word or concept? Do students learn every one? And if you come across one while reading that you don’t know is there any way to figure out what it means from the symbol directly or do you have to just figure it out from the context?
And then how do people type in Chinese? I assume that like scrolling through thousands of characters to input a specific one would be waaaaay too time consuming…?
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My family is bilingual and we’ve realised that teaching our 2yo daughter to recognise Chinese characters is much easier than reading English. Reason being, each Chinese character is processed in the brain like a picture, so for example 木 means wood. And she remembers because the character looks like a tree! Or 人 means person because it looks like a man standing with his feet apart.
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