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In Chinese there are about 1,000 very common characters, and about 2,500 less common. In comparison English uses at least 4,000 basic and common words.

There might be thousands of Chinese words; however, the meanings of these words can be guessed by the meanings of the characters, for examples, “vocabulary” in Chinese is composed of the characters “word” and “table”.

There are thousands of Chinese characters with different shapes and forms and although some rules apply it will still be difficult to learn them all. On another hand if you can recognize them you should be able to write an article in Chinese just typing pinyin on a computer.