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There are, but new characters are not introduced into the language to represent them. Since there are over 10,000 characters in use (over 30,000 in total), old characters are chosen to represent the writing of new slang.

So, as the language grows with new words, the writing of these new words uses old known characters, no new characters are ever introduced.

For example:

"No way" is represented by "没门", two known characters, pronounced "mei men", that mean "not/no" and "door/entrance/gate" respectively.

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ASL Terp + Teach 1y ago

This is so interesting! My uncle is fluent in Mandarin (he lived in China for a few years) but we've never had linguistic talks about the structure of the language.

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