The written Chinese language will blow your mind.

Each character is made up of an intricate series of strokes, sometimes as many as 64.

Combining these characters in different ways can give each one totally different meaning.

The largest Chinese dictionaries include around 56,000 characters.

Functional literacy requires a knowledge of between 3,000 and 4,000 characters.

And on top of it all, Chinese characters are the oldest continuously-used system of writing in the world.

So how the hell does it work on a modern computer keyboard? We checked out this Slate article and it turns out that people use lots of different methods.