How many characters does the Chinese alphabet have?
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Interesting question:\nNumber of Chinese characters\nThe question of how many characters there are is still the subject of debate. In the 18th century, European scholars claimed the total tally to be about 80,000. This number, however, is thought to be exaggerated as the character count varies by dictionary and its comprehensiveness. For example, the Kangxi Dictionary lists about 40,000 characters, while the modern Zhonghua Zihai lists in excess of 80,000 (the most comprehensive Japanese kanji dictionary Daikanwa Jiten lists 50,000 entries). One reason for the overwhelming number of characters is due to the existence of rarely-occurring variant and obscure characters (many of which are unused, even in Classical Chinese). Note, however, that no two characters are ever contextually identical.\n\nThe large number of Chinese characters is due to their logographic nature — for every morpheme a glyph is required, and variant characters have at times developed for the same morpheme. Furthermore, in the centuries after the standardisation of the Chinese script by Qin Shi Huang to the zhuanshu, the literati multiplied the total stock of characters by modifying extant characters à la the 形聲字 xíngshēngzì method—by altering the radical of a homonym character to provide a distinct glyph for either new words or words that had till then been homographs. It has also been claimed that the sheer number of characters is used as a way to separate scholars from the ordinary, and perhaps even to keep certain texts from being read by all but the most scholarly.\n\nIt is usually said that about 3,000 characters are needed for basic literacy in Chinese (for example, to read a Chinese newspaper), and a well-educated person will know well in excess of 4,000 to 5,000 characters. Note that it is not necessary to know a character for every known word of Chinese, as the majority of modern Chinese words, unlike their Ancient Chinese and Middle Chinese counterparts, are bimorphemic compounds, i.e. they are made up of two, usually common, characters. There are 6763 code points in GB2312, an early version of the national encoding standard used in the People's Republic of China. GB18030, the modern, mandatory standard, has a much higher number. The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi proficiency test covers approximately 5000 characters.\n\nThe Chinese Standard Interchange Code (CNS11643)—the official national encoding standard—supports 48027 characters, while the most widely-used encoding scheme, BIG-5, supports only 13053.\n\nIn addition, there is a large corpus of dialect characters, which are not used in formal written Chinese but represent colloquial terms in non-Mandarin Chinese spoken forms. One such variety is Written Cantonese, in widespread use in Hong Kong even for certain formal documents, due to the former British colonial administration's recognition of Cantonese for use for official purposes. In Taiwan, there is also an informal body of characters used to represent the spoken Min Nan dialect.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alphabet
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Every character is assigned a unique code, to translate a string representation of a letter in the alphabet, you merely have to look up the code for that particular character, then convert that decimal representation to binary.\n\nFor example:\n'a' - 97 \n\n97 in binary is : 1100001\n\n\n64 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1\n 1   1   0   0   0    0    1\n\n64 + 32 + 1 = 97
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Chinese names are short compared to other counrties. Usually they only have first name and last name, no middle name. So in Chinese, normally a name is only 2-4 characters. Chinese Pingying (which tells us how to pronounce the Chinese word)is used in the English or other languages as name. Pingying is much longer than the real Chinese characterm, making the Chinese name about 2-10 letter1 long in first name, 2 to 6 letters long in last name.\n\nI hope this doesn't confuse you.
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As a matter of fact, "Shi1" is a Chinese character rather than a word.In spoken Chinese, every one uses "shi1-zi0" instead of "shi1", i.e. the Chinese word for lion is a two-syllable one.
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Since each key has its own individual screen they can display any image on any key instantly.  This means that one keyboard can be customized to feature Chinese, Arabic, hieroglyphics, Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian— and so on to infinity: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, mathematical functions. Below is an image with the keyboard using English and Russian characters.
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letter-letter enumeration. English uses 26 letters and therefore there arae 26*26 different letter-letter combinations, such as the th of the or the no of genome.\n\nIf we have a piece of text with W words in it, and a total of C characters (only counting a-z without sensitivity to case), then there are C-W letter-letter neighbour pairs in the text. For example, \n\nmy dog is lazy (text)\nmy dog is lazy (pair 1)\nmy dog is lazy (pair 2)\nmy dog is lazy (pair 3)\nmy dog is lazy (pair 4)\nmy dog is lazy (pair 5)\nmy dog is lazy (pair 6)\nmy dog is lazy (pair 7)
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It's impossible to know the answer without seeing the actual Chinese character that "Chuen" represents. The Chinese character for money (錢) is often written "qian" or "chien" or "chian," but it is possible that some might write it "chuen." Either way, the Romanized spelling is only an approximation of the Chinese pronunciation, and doesn't carry enough information to know the meaning of the character.
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No.\n\nSome other languages have more than 27 letters in their alphabets.\nEnglish used to have more itself including þ (named:Thorn), đ (Eth), and æ (Ash).
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Well, it ranges from 40,000 to 80,000 because it's really difficult to give an exact count as to the number of characters, since many of them are obscure, unused, or arcahic variants, even though they are all different.\n\nFor example, "two" is normally written as 二\nHowever, these two characters: 貳  弍 are ancient, though pretty much unused, ways to write it.\n\nCheck out the first source for more info.  I hope this helps  :)
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SIMPLIFIED CHINESE\n\nSimplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. The other set is Traditional Chinese characters. Simplified Chinese characters are the Chinese characters officially simplified by the government of the People's Republic of China in an attempt to promote literacy. This character set is used for most Chinese-language printing in Mainland China and Singapore whereas traditional characters are used in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities. Simplified characters are gradually gaining popularity among many overseas Chinese communities as more mainland Chinese are emigrating from their homeland.\n\nOnly a fraction of characters were simplified, and many characters are identical between Simplified and Traditional Chinese. There are also a large number of Simplified characters whose forms are regularly derived using rules that replace Traditional character components with Simplified components. A small number of Simplified characters, however, are not regularly derived from Traditional Chinese; some Simplified characters are completely different in form from Traditional characters.\n\nTRADITIONAL CHINESE\n\nTraditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese characters. It is the set of characters that first appeared during the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220) and has been used since the 5th century during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is called traditional as opposed to the other form - the simplified Chinese characters, created or standardised by the government of the People's Republic of China (mainland China) starting from the 1950s. Traditional Chinese is text written with Traditional Chinese characters. Traditional Chinese characters are used in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and some overseas Chinese communities; especially those originating from the aforementioned countries or who emigrated before the widepspread adoption of simplified characters in the People's Republic of China. In contrast, simplified characters are used in Mainland China, Singapore, and in some overseas Chinese communities; especially those from aforementioned countries who emigrated after the widespread adoption of simplified Chinese characters.
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In the I Ching, the Book of Changes, there are only 64 Hexagrams described. Perhaps you mean something else. If you wish to write me with a clarification, I could help you more. Sorry but there is no 92 in the I Ching.
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The Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: 11 vowels, 20 consonants and 2 letters which do not have a sound (instead they make the word harder or softer).   See the source citation for the sounds made by Russian letters.
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Patrick, it is extremely difficult to learn to read and write in chinese. the chinese language is not based on letters combining to form representations of phonetic sounds, like english and most other modern laguages. the chinese 'alphabet' is actually comprised of over 3,000 unique pictographs. also, they read and write their texts from right to left, a convention that is strange to those that speak english, and most of the european and slavic languages. does that help? :-)
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The Chinese language is recorded by means of Chinese characters (hieroglyph). The number of the characters is over 50,000, but only about 3,000 are in daily use. Most Chinese words comprise one or two (in the majority) or three characters. The characters are not associated with the speech sound. A Scheme for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet was established to help people (especially children) to learn pronunciations of Chinese characters. The alphabet is the same as that of English but of course with different pronunciation. Chinese dictionaries use this Phonetic Alphabet as a guide to pronunciation. In terms of the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, there are 26 “Chinese” letters.
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In Japanese, there is a phonetic character set (two, actually) called kana, consisting of 46 symbols each. There are only 46 distinct syllable sounds in the Japanese language. Japanese computers typically have a keyboard with each of these 46 characters mapped out. Alternatively, you can use the Roman alphabet to spell out these 46 sounds.\n\nChinese can also be entered phonetically. There are also some input methods that involve entering a character piece by piece, since complex Chinese characters are often composed of smaller, distinct pieces. This entry method can be supported with a relatively simple keyboard of 24 keys, each of which represents one or more of these pieces.
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it is seven letters long.\n"a string"
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There's only eight alphabets you listed?\nFrom those 8, you can have:\nheal-with, thaw-hile, hit-whale, whale-hit, hat-while, while-hat.