People often regard Chinese, including Standard Mandarin, as a monosyllabic language.
Classical Chinese apparently was a monosyllabic language, where words consisted of a single syllable (a single character also equals a single syllable).
Modern Standard Mandarin still has quite a few single-syllable words/terms, but more common are two-syllable (two-character) terms, to the point where many common words have an "empty" second syllable
子 literally meaning "child". This turns old single-syllable words into two syllable words, and it's a bit like a diminutive in western languages.
There are also very many 4-syllable words and terms. Some seem to be made up of two 2-syllable words and others seem to be made up of four single-syllable words.
But are there also three-syllable and five-syllable words? How common/rare are they?