So, if the Chinese don’t have an alphabet and use only pictograms comprising of over 6500 characters, how do they type on a keyboard? Do they have really large keyboards with over 6500 keys or do they just say “Screw Mandarin” and type in English (which can’t be true because I’ve seen Chinese characters on webpages/spam emails)? Is there some kind of algorithmic key pressing magic that goes on in order to produce said characters?
Reading is easy. I have been in the US for over a decade, barely ever read chinese, still know how to read basic characters.
Its writing that is hard.
Its like, its easy to know what an artist is depicting when looking at art, but its hard to draw that same image from the top of your head. Chinese characters is basically art, complicated af.
Also, don’t worry about literacy rates. Schools in China be strict af, they make you memorize an entire story, word for word.