Are Chinese Characters Words?

They're just a bunch of mini-meanings! Characters, like morphemes, are sometimes simple words & sometimes non-words.

Are Chinese characters letters or words?

Chinese characters do not constitute an alphabet or a compact syllabary. Rather, the writing system is roughly logosyllabic; that is, a character generally represents one syllable of spoken Chinese and may be a word on its own or a part of a polysyllabic word.

Do Chinese write in characters?

There's no Chinese alphabet. Instead, each word is represented by a character, or a compound of two or three characters. ... All over the country, Chinese people are forgetting how to write their own language without computerised help.