No, you can't. You have to learn each character individually. That said, when I studied Chinese, I found it easier to learn the words and how to write them com

No, you can't. You have to learn each character individually. That said, when I studied Chinese, I found it easier to learn the words and how to write them compared to other languages I had learnt before. Perhaps it's just me, but I find learning symbols easier than words made up from letters.