Chinese Characters
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The Chinese characters for animals oftentimes look like the animals themselves.
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As a pictographic language, Chinese characters often look like the objects they represent.
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If you look at the character for elephant, one might see a representation of the elephant with a long trunk, four legs and a tail. This is why Chinese is known as a "pictographic" language.
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In the Chinese language, you can combine characters together to form a different word.
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