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Is there a Mandarin or other Chinese equivalent to the English alphabet song?
I've been speaking to my young daughter about places around the world, and explaining that in China they use a totally different alphabet to us in Europe. So they don't sing "A B C D E F G, H I J K LMNOP" like we do.
"So what do they sing?", she asked.
Good question, I thought...
1 Answer
- 5 years ago
The Chinese language doesn't have an alphabet. Their characters have picture-based origins. In fact, it's pretty hard to read characters you've never seen before because there's no concrete way to know what the character sounds like unless you have a dictionary.
The characters are made up of components, with the simplest form usually referred to as radicals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(Chinese_cha...
Hope you've learnt something new (:
