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Chinese characters, pinyin: hàn zì, phonetic notation: ㄢˋˋ, also known as Chinese, Chinese characters, also known as square characters, are recorded symbols in Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years. In form, it gradually changed from graphics to strokes, pictographs to symbols and complexity.
1, in the principle of word formation, from ideographic to pictophonetic.
In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. Except for a few Chinese characters, such as Zi, Zi, Zi, Chi and Zi are all one Chinese character and one syllable. Modern Chinese characters refer to capitalized Chinese characters, including traditional characters and simplified characters. Modern Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, big seal script and small seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script.
Chinese characters were invented and improved by the ancestors of China people.
Chinese characters were invented and improved by Han ancestors, which is an indispensable link to maintain the Han dialect area. The earliest extant Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC and later bronze inscriptions. Chinese characters have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only inheritors of the ancient Otomachi system. Chinese characters have always been the main official language in China.
3. Chinese characters are also the only international communication language in East Asia.
In ancient times, Chinese characters were also used as the only international communication language in East Asia. Before the 20th century, they were still the official written standard characters of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and Ryukyu, and all East Asian countries created their own Chinese characters to some extent.
It should be noted that Japanese, Korean Peninsula, Vietnamese and other countries were deeply influenced by China culture in history, and even other languages borrowed Chinese characters. In the non-Chinese character system, Japan has formulated a list of commonly used Chinese characters, and South Korea has also formulated basic Chinese characters for education, while Vietnam, North Korea and Mongolia, which used Chinese characters in history, have now abandoned Chinese characters.