Chinese-Dragon
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Dude am just curious.
How do you guys read Chinese? I mean, Chinese letters seem to express a big word in just a few alphabets. Is it some form of pictorial representation of objects?
Yep, a single character can have a lot of meaning, they are basically pictures. There is no alphabet in Chinese.
The picture in my avatar means "Dragon" (in traditional Chinese characters). If you look at it, it actually does look like a dragon... with the head on the top left, and the tail on the bottom right.
Another example, this is an eye "目" and this is a person "人".
Put them together and you get "見" which means "to see" (Jian). That is in traditional characters.
Other East Asians like Japanese use these same characters as well in their language.