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Haha yeah, I wouldn't be able to tell you as of now! The closest I get to tell you what it looks like when strokes that stand for different things merge together is with the letter Æ. A is red, E is a pale yellow so Æ is orange, but on a gradient from brown to bright orange. Very pretty letter and very dominant in words.

We also have the letters Ø and Å in my language which stand for "oe" for Ø and "aa" for Å. These are different, though, as their designs don't really show the combination of the letters like it does with Æ. O for me is white, sometimes with a light creamy yellow tint to it. E is, as I said, a pale yellow but Ø is the color of darker amber. A is red, but Å is a dusty blue and light pink, like a morning sky.

So if I learned Chinese, I'm sure the colors of their characters would be very intricate and probably take a different shape too as I'm used to seeing words in horizontal color codes similar to this:

But I suspect that because Chinese words are built more like in boxes, the color combinations would imitate their shapes too and that would be kinda cool to experience, I think. It would still be a largely useless ability, if you can even call it that, because I rarely use my synesthesia for anything other than remembering spellings and such.