Edison Chen
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Chinese written language is one of the hardest to master. Unlike Latin alphabet where there's only 26 letters , there are thousands of Hanzi characters. Mastery of Chinese written language takes years to accomplish.
There is thousands of common used Hanzi, you can combine them to form new words, and those words are easy to understand the meaning and speak out, only if you master the several thousand Hanzi. If you know each Hanzi's meaning, you will know the combination's meaning. While English is different, in each professional field with natural science, every letter can form a totally new words, you can read it, but you will never know its meaning. So this is Hanzi's advantage. With only limited number of characters, you will know more words. Hanzi is more conclusive and broad.