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The only problem is that you learn all 2000 at the very minimum and more than that if you actually want to do something practical.

Each one has more than 1 reading, a particular stroke order, and many other things.



Pretty sure you need to learn more than 2000 English words at a minimum too. The only difference is that instead of learning the 1-dimensional arrangement of letters, you learn the 2-dimensional arrangement of radicals.


> The only difference is that instead of learning the 1-dimensional arrangement of letters, you learn the 2-dimensional arrangement of radicals.

Except that usually, almost nothing about the arrangement of strokes can be inferred from the sound or meaning of the word, and vice versa.


"Ghoti"


No, you also have to learn the sounds of the words so that you can speak them, and then most of the characters have multiple sounds used in different places, and they place multiple characters together for a lot of words.

It's a lot more complex than just using letters, which is something they can also do.




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