• wopazoo [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Learning <30 symbols is objectively simpler than several thousand

    This is comparing apples and oranges.

    Chinese characters are not the base units of the writing system. The equivalent of alphabetical characters in Han script would be singular strokes, of which there are only 10.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_(CJK_character)