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To make friends with the Chinese, you need to understand them better. ONe way to understand anyone is to learn our language, which is Mandarin. Chinese writing started thousands of years ago, and many of the early characters were pictographs. Written Chinese is the same all over China, even though there are many different spoken dialects, such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Fukien and Hakka. The writing of Chinese characters is called calligraphy and it is considered to be as much a form of art as would be the painting of portraits or landscapes.

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Mandarin Pronunciation English Meaning Chinese Character
Yi One �@
Er Two �G
San Three �T
Sz Four �|
Wu Five ��
Lyo Six ��
Chi Seven �C
Ba Eight �K
Jyo Nine �E
Shih Ten �Q
Ni Hau Hello �A�n
Sye-Sye Thank you ����
Zai Jan Good Bye �A��
Jung Gwo Ren Chinese ����H
Peng Yo Friend �B��

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