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漢字歷史上古老文字之一大概四千
Chinese characters are one of history's most ancient writing scripts, approximately four thousand years old.

This sentence is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, it cannot be used in Cantonese.

  Level: 3
漢字是歷史上最古老的文字之一,大概四千歲了。

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漢字  hon3 zi6  han4 zi4  -  Chinese character
 si6  shi4  - is
歷史上  lik6 si2 soeng6  li4 shi3 shang4  -  historically
 zeoi3  zui4  - most; extremely; exceedingly
古老  gu2 lou5  gu3 lao3  -  [1] ancient; [2] old-fashioned
 dik1  de5 di2 di4  - possessive suffix
文字  man4 zi6  wen2 zi4  -  writing; script
之一  zi1 jat1  zhi1 yi1  -  one (of a given quantity)
大概  daai6 koi3/3*2  da4 gai4  -  approximately
四千  sei3 cin1  si4 qian1  -  four thousand; 4,000
 seoi3  sui4 xue3  - year; age (of a person)
 liu5  le5 liao3  - completed; change; finish
This sentence was added by claw and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:06
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