Not necessarily! One Chinese character = one English syllable, but just like in English, many (most?) Chinese¹ words have more than one syllable. The article it

Not necessarily! One Chinese character = one English syllable, but just like in English, many (most?) Chinese¹ words have more than one syllable. The article itself mentions that most names are two syllables, for instance. Or here’s another example with six characters/syllables but four words: 你 叫 什么 名字？ Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi? _____________ ¹ I really shouldn’t be talking about ‘Chinese’ like this in a unified way, as the differences between Chinese languages are comparable to those between, say, English and German; however in this particular case, it’s fine to do so, since my specific comments here are applicable to all Chinese languages I’m aware of.