ABSTRACT
The Chinese language, which is spoken by the largest number of people on the earth as their mother tongue, has many different dialects in addition to Mandarin Chinese. Despite the different accents of these dialects, all Chinese language speakers share one writing system enabling them to communicate with each other in writing when dialects are too difficult to understand by listening. The Chinese writing system, unlike the writing system of alphabetical languages, is formed with no letters or combination of letters to represent the sounds of the language. It is formed with Chinese characters, which are symbols constructed and used to convey meanings.
