It's good that you already have some basic Chinese understanding. On technology wise, I guess the chain just doesn't register Chinese word. It's there, the codes and everything is there, it just doesn't count. You can still see the Chinese word in the blockexplorer, but none of the character recognition software are capable of reading them. I'm an #esteem curator if you don't already know, the curation channel shows my 2000 words article as 3 words in the curation channel 😂 imagine, if you're steemcleaners and found this guy have always been posting 3 letter words, what are you going to do?

比如说，我现在告诉你这一排字在区块链里面是读成一个单词，你相信吗？ 这个世界就是那么现实的。

The above paragraph is considered 2 word because of the space bar 😂 if you take away that space and connect the last phrase, it will immediately become ONE word. In English, some of the word can have similar word count ordeal.

Housekeeping
House keeping

One word and two word is an entirely different meaning.

I did tried my best to educate the Chinese community to make a simple yet effective footer in both Chinese and English, make use of the footer on every post so the Blockchain will start counting at the end of the post. I even offer to help translate or proof read their footer so they can use it in the future. So far, only a handful of them did it.

In the end, the Blockchain has its limitation, but the people are the ones who choose to limit themselves due to communication error. Similar issues happened to Thailand, Vietnamese, and Arabic write ups.