China's Chinese characters have different images. What do Chinese characters look like to foreigners?

Chinese characters are written in Chinese? Some people borrow it to write Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other languages. It is a widely used language in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, and it is also the only highly developed language that is still widely used in the world. ? Chinese characters in a broad sense refer to characters from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Dazhuan, Jinwen, Xiewen and Xiaozhuan to official script, cursive script, regular script (and derived running script), while Chinese characters in a narrow sense with block letters as the standard writing method are also widely used today.

For foreigners, reading words is like a terrorist symbol, or more like a high-level password, which needs a computer to decrypt. Phonetic characters like English can be written as long as they can read. But Chinese is different. Reading and writing are two different things. It's no use talking, you have to learn to practice word by word. From English letters to Chinese characters, from one-dimensional characters to two-dimensional characters, it is equivalent to jumping directly from barcode to QR code, and the difficulty can be imagined. No wonder they feel that many times they are not "writing" Chinese characters, but "drawing" Chinese characters.

For foreigners, Chinese characters are culture, calligraphy, philosophy and art, mysterious and harsh. So it can be printed on a T-shirt, hung on the wall, or even tattooed directly on your body. Beginners feel that Chinese characters are sometimes like small paintings: the word "mountain" is like a hill; Zeng is like a little bee; "Ha" is like a small house; "Only" is like a TV set; The word "O" is like a little soldier. ......

Chinese characters are the official language of a country and have great vitality. They have inherited the culture of 5,000 years, and enhanced the centripetal force and cohesion of all ethnic groups in China. The cultural essence of Chinese character dissemination has enhanced the sense of identity among all ethnic groups. They are the glue of cultural exchanges between different ethnic groups in history. One of the important reasons why China has been divided into big countries for a long time is that the culture carried by Chinese characters has always been recognized by all ethnic groups.