There's a tongue twister in Chinese with all characters pronounced "shi".[1][2] Hmm, I don't know Japanese grammar, but if those characters are Chinese ones, you can almost write something like that with these characters. 秋收 and 修習 are legitimate words for starter.
All characters are pronounced "shi" in Mandarin, with 4 different tones, leaving 4 distinct pronunciations.
In other "dialects", such as Cantonese or Teochew, the characters are pronounced as 7 or distinct syllables, with 6 different tones, leaving more than 20 distinct pronunciations.
Mandarin has very few available syllables compared to other languages (not only, say, English, but also older Chinese "dialects").
In other "dialects", such as Cantonese or Teochew, the characters are pronounced as 7 or distinct syllables, with 6 different tones, leaving more than 20 distinct pronunciations.
Mandarin has very few available syllables compared to other languages (not only, say, English, but also older Chinese "dialects").