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Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development by temp on Friday January 22, 2016 @04:45AM (#10951773)
>There are about 10-30 homophones for each pinyin "word".

Yep, example

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yīn#Mandarin

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Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday January 22, 2016 @05:11AM (#10951862)
And each of those characters might, itself, have multiple meanings.
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