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Another fun part of Chinese is that most characters are monosyllabic. This makes numbers easy to remember and, on average, Chinese speakers can remember a few m

Another fun part of Chinese is that most characters are monosyllabic. This makes numbers easy to remember and, on average, Chinese speakers can remember a few more random digits than English speakers can.

UIZealot 11y ago
Actually, ALL Chinese characters are monosyllabic.
- rockymeza 11y ago
  Well... 小孩儿 is only two syllables.
  - Gigablah 11y ago
    That's a contraction.
- jpatokal 11y ago
  Except the ones that aren't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Polysyllabic_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters#Polysyllabi...