There are thousands of characters in Mandarin Chinese, but a common estimate is around 20,000 characters. However, you only need to know around 3,000 characters to read a Chinese newspaper.
Mandarin and Cantonese are both spoken Chinese dialects, with Mandarin being the more widely spoken in China and Cantonese more prevalent in southern China and Hong Kong. Traditional Chinese refers to the written form of Chinese characters before simplified characters were introduced, whereas modern Chinese typically refers to the simplified characters used in mainland China today.
It depends. Mandarin is one of several Chinese spoken languages. Simplified and Traditional refer to the written language, which is in all forms of Chinese the same. Simplified Chinese is written in mainland China and Singapore, but not in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and not mostly not by overseas Chinese communities.
Traditional Chinese refers to the writing system used in Chinese characters before simplified characters were introduced. Mandarin Chinese, on the other hand, is a spoken dialect of Chinese and is the official language of China and Taiwan. Mandarin can be written using both traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
I like = 我喜歡 (traditional Chinese characters), 我喜欢 (simplified Chinese characters). 我 = I, 喜歡/喜欢 = like
There are thousands of characters in Mandarin Chinese, but a common estimate is around 20,000 characters. However, you only need to know around 3,000 characters to read a Chinese newspaper.
The difference is the Chinese language is that Simplified Mandarin has differently shaped characters. Compared to Traditional Mandarin, Simplified Mandarin has more condensed character with fewer strokes. In many cases characters with different meanings but similar pronunciations are dictated the same way in Simplified Chinese, whereas they are separate in Traditional Mandarin.
Mandarin and Cantonese are both spoken Chinese dialects, with Mandarin being the more widely spoken in China and Cantonese more prevalent in southern China and Hong Kong. Traditional Chinese refers to the written form of Chinese characters before simplified characters were introduced, whereas modern Chinese typically refers to the simplified characters used in mainland China today.
Cantonese is one of the dialects of Chinese. Cantonese only has a spoken form which is different from Mandarin Chinese. Its writing form is also the same Chinese characters.
It depends. Mandarin is one of several Chinese spoken languages. Simplified and Traditional refer to the written language, which is in all forms of Chinese the same. Simplified Chinese is written in mainland China and Singapore, but not in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and not mostly not by overseas Chinese communities.
約翰 (in Chinese traditional characters) 约翰 (in Chinese simplified characters) Pronunciation: Yue1 han4 (in Mandarin pinyin pronunciation)
Traditional Chinese refers to the writing system used in Chinese characters before simplified characters were introduced. Mandarin Chinese, on the other hand, is a spoken dialect of Chinese and is the official language of China and Taiwan. Mandarin can be written using both traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
I like = 我喜歡 (traditional Chinese characters), 我喜欢 (simplified Chinese characters). 我 = I, 喜歡/喜欢 = like
Mandarin Chinese is a logographic language, meaning that each character represents a word or a morpheme. It is written using Chinese characters, which are formed by strokes and arranged in a square shape. Each character is composed of different components that give clues to its meaning and pronunciation.
Mandarin and Cantonese use the same Chinese characters, but pronunciation and meaning can vary between the two languages. Both languages are written using Chinese characters, but they may be pronounced differently or have different meanings in each dialect.
Basketball: "lan2 qiu2" in Mandarin, pinyin pronounciation 籃球 (in traditional Chinese characters) 篮球 (in simplified Chinese characters)
Thank you: pronounced "xie4 xie" in Mandarin, pinyin pronounciation 謝謝 (in traditional Chinese characters) 谢谢 (in simplified Chinese characters)