Chinese characters have been used for the longest time in a row so far, and they are the only ones in all kinds of ghost writing systems in ancient times. Chinese characters have always been the main official characters of China's dynasties.
In ancient times, Chinese characters were not only used in China, but also served as the only international exchange characters in East Asia for a long time. Before the 20th century, it was the official writing standard characters of Japan, Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Ryukyu and other countries, and all East Asian countries created their own Chinese characters to some extent.
In the non-Chinese character system, the Japanese themselves simplified Chinese characters and formulated new Japanese fonts, and South Korea also formulated an official Korean character specification. Vietnam, North Korea, Mongolia and other countries that used Chinese characters in history have now abandoned Chinese characters.
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Characteristics of Chinese characters:
1, beautiful
It has become an art-calligraphy art, and the calligraphy art of Chinese characters can't be compared with any other words. The following ancient calligraphy works have become priceless. There are many famous works such as Preface to Lanting, Monument to Shengde of Shence Army, Mysterious Pagoda Monument, and My Nephew's Sacrifice Draft.
2, high recognition.
The field of vision of human eyes is always a surface, not a line, so linear arrangement is difficult to identify; Form a square at a glance. Pinyin text = linear text; Chinese character = box symbol. Chinese characters are more efficient than pinyin characters in reading.
3, easy to understand and to the point
For example, "Bei" is a pictophonetic character as well as a cognitive character. From the perspective of pictophonetic characters, the word "clothes" on the left of the word "quilt" indicates that the quilt belongs to the category of clothing, and the word "skin" on the right is similar to the pronunciation of "quilt" in the word-making era, indicating the pronunciation of this word.
However, with the passage of time, the pronunciation of "Pi" and "Bei" became different, and gradually lost the function of expressing pronunciation. From the perspective of understanding characters, clothes made of leather are "quilts". The original meaning of quilt refers to a small quilt. In later generations, the meaning of "suffering" was extended on the basis of the original meaning of quilt.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Characters