As the most widely used language that uses block characters, most people who use Chinese agree the language is hard to write in. But there is one kind of characters that almost anyone would find easy. It employs the simplest rule in the character creation handbook - Multiply!

One person is 人, what's three people 众? Crowded, of course. Thus 众 means a crowd or the masses. One sun is 日, what's three suns 晶? Shiny, obviously. So 晶 means shiny. One tree is 木, what's two or three trees 森林? A forest, naturally.

Not all of them are as straightforward as the ones I picked out. Mouth is 口, what is three mouths 品? Numerous. Due to the simplification of Chinese, many such words are harder to understand because they have been changed, or else the word they are built from has changed meaning. For example, 月 now means moon. By that logic, two moons 朋 should

have something to do with astrology or time. But no, two moons 朋 actually means friend. Why is this? Well, 月 used to look a little different and it meant flesh or meat. So two bodies/people together are friends. A long-forgotten character has made a dramatic comeback as part of the most popular well-wishes this year（龙行龘龘）. It is made up of three traditional Chinese dragons 龘 (龍) meaning to be as strong and lively as a dragon, an especially apt blessing for people in the year of the dragon.