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Originally Posted by HansTWN
As to the second part. You might be able to learn a few simple characters, the numbers 1 to 10, for example. But if you know nothing about the language, the sentence structure, how could you go deeper? It wouldn't have to be Mandarin, every Chinese dialect (Cantanese, Hakka, Taiwanese, etc) uses Hanzi as its written form. Without sounds, how would you remember anything?
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... doubtless I'm about to make my inquiry dumber still:
Couldn't I just read 人 as "man", "雇工" as employment, "雇员" as employee (or even as 雇 "employed" and 员 "member")?
Would the phonetic aspects of Hanzi render such an approach untenable beyond the simplest elements?
- Ahi