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[quote=DYLAN0428,244673]i think that is just the advantages of Chinese
most of chinese word are combined with single characters.
and we don't need inventing single characters,that will hard to remember ,like huge english new word invented every year
 
let's analyse:
the words are combined with single charactors
the single characters are combined with (how to say) "unit"
the "part" are combined with (how to say)"part"
so the basic factor is "part",like the 26 letters

chinese:part-unit-single charactor-word
english:letter-word(including some combined word)

part,unit,single charactor,letter are fixed.
word is invented continually,but chinese is easy to remember
single characotors we used in daily life are about 2000-3000,we only remember these
we can easy to combined a new word with known single characters,and we can guess the word meaning through the single characters.

and now english number of words is much more than Shakespeare period.
but the combined word is fewer.

the language is differrent from the information,language is use by human-being in daily life,simple and easy to learn and remember is the most important.

and the information,techenique,knowledge ,we can remember by computer,and we don't use all of them in daily life.

for example 
english:
pig-pork
sheep-mutton
chinese
zhu-zhu rou(zhu's meat)
yang-yang rou(yang's meat)
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