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Re:Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes by raldi on Friday May 04, 2012 @10:27AM (#3928492)
学 means "learn"

字 means "characters"

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Re:Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes by grovecai on Saturday May 05, 2012 @08:50AM (#3932017)
>字 means "characters" Not exactly! Single 字 has meanings in Chinese, but single character generally has no meaning in English.
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