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What Are the Main Features of the Chinese Script?

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What are the main features of the Chinese script?

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The main features of Chinese script were following

  1. A Chinese script is a form of picture writing. Each picture represents an idea.
  2. The Chinese language does not have any alphabet.
  3. There were about 40,000 word-pictures making the script complex and difficult.
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