What's So Cool About Chinese Characters?

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The average english word length is about close to five letters. To compose an English word, you basely have to tap five times on the keyboard. Chinese characters are composed of between two and four components. With typewriting keyboard technology, china was able to use t even better than the russian alphabet.

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