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Just be thankful in English there are spaces. Chinese doesn't have even that!

• praptak 6y ago
  Would it be useful in Chinese? I thought each character is basically a word. Or is that only sometimes true?
  • afiori 6y ago
    As once it was explained to me, most ideograms can be used as an independent word, but most words are 2 or 3 ideograms long. If I remember correctly an example was faucet=water+dragon
    • 7C34B74B 6y ago
      Faucet is dragon 龍 + head 頭. This mostly comes from the shape looking like a dragon statue, and water is stongly associated to dragons.
      • afiori 6y ago
        Thank you for the correction, probably my memory got confused over time.
  • 7C34B74B 6y ago
    Spaces would be useful when reading Chinese. Words are composed of (usually) 1-3 characters. Each character has a particular meaning. Word have their own meaning, independant of the meaning of the characters used. Often the meaning of the characters in a word kinda implies the meaning of the word, but that's not reliable at all. Sometimes the characters in a word are used just for their sound.