How do you understand Chinese characters?

Question

How do you understand Chinese characters?

Answer 1

Let see... Urmm... As far as i know, if u want to know just ask to some1 who knows?? And if u want to understand, just learn from some1 who understand..duh

Answer 2

Each Chinese character has a pronounciation and a meaning. Its really complicated. Two characters together could have a totally different meaning to what they were seperately. It does not involve the alphabet.    As one character is one word. It is very hard to memorise what all the characters say and mean.  

Answer 3

You just do. It's like how you understand what this says - you learned it when you were young, and now it's just automatic.

人 means "man." 爱 means "love." That's it - just instinct.

Answer 4

How do you understand the alphabet??

you learn it growing up.  I believe each character represents a sound or an object