Tag: Chinese cartoon

I don’t know if many other people have thought of this. When studying Chinese, I often thought about the structure of their language, how their words are built, and how this prevents them from games of hangman, spelling bees, anagrams, palindromes, etc. If there are any pedants viewing this, yes, technically Chinese speakers could sound out a word by calling off the name of each stroke of the character in order. (Each individual stroke in Chinese has a name. In English, this would be equivalent to “dot,” “slash,” “vertical slash,” “line,” or similar terms.)