Because Chinese uses ideograms , or characters , rather than analphabet , to represent each syllable , it takes six years of primary educationto master the 3000 or so characters required to read a newspaper .
因为中国使用文字而非字母来代表每个音节，这需要通过6年的小学教育掌握大约3000个字才能阅读一份报纸。
analphabet