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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by simplify on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:38PM (#18866757)
That's just spoken language. There are many words that are "literary", which means they are used primarily in writing and not spoken language. Without hanzi it would be very difficult to understand what is written.
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Re:Kenya will start teaching Chinese to elementary school st... by jason_slack on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:02PM (#18868259)
Yup this can be true.

If you read something like duo(3) it could be a measure word for flowers (朵) or maybe mean “to hide or avoid” (躲)

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