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Americans Flood Chinese App RedNote, Discover Its Users Are Obsessed With Luigi Mangione (futurism.com)

submitted 6 months ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know enough about their language. Do speakers of Mandarin and Cantonese use the same alphabet?

[–] InevitableList@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Chinese uses ideograms, which are the same for all dialects and are even used in Japan.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

That's good, thanks for the info.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's good, thanks for the info.

[–] InevitableList@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

They also developed a way of writing with roman characters (called pinyin) so they could type on computers and phones. Taiwan developed a different method and Japan uses its own alphabet .