32: Fallen Leaves: The Chinese Languages (with Wu Mei-Shin, Ye Jingting, and Israel Lai)
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The History of Chinese Characters
There are 80,000 unique Chinese characters but many of them are so rare. Eugenie: Cantonese speaker in Hong Kong could pass as a Mandarin speaker if it were somehow politically expedient for them to sound Mandarin. Jinkishin: I think there's room for more discussion on this and we should probably end our discussion here.
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