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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Kids now basically learn to write by rote. There some combining but most of it is just memorization and practice. As far as typing, you can do stroke order and after you get to a certain point your word will pop up. Or you can type using a phonetic system called pinyin. You type how it sounds and you get a selection of words to pick from.
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