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Chinese writing is very different from most other languages in the world. In the Chinese writing system,
Chinese symbols represent each character which corresponds to a single spoken syllable. A
majority of words in all modern varieties of Chinese require two or more characters
to write. Many Chinese characters were adopted according to their meaning by the Japanese
and Korean languages to represent native words, disregarding pronunciation altogether. Chinese
characters are also considered to be the world's longest continuously used writing system.