Chinese writing symbols. One of the oldest scripts in the world. The oldest and most recognizable Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago and later bronze inscriptions.
Usually, a Chinese character represents a syllable. At present, Chinese characters can be divided into two categories: pure ideographic characters without phonetic components (such as sun, blade and rest) and pictophonetic characters with phonetic components (such as grain, oil and steel), among which pictophonetic characters account for the majority. Since 1949, China has actively carried out the reform of Chinese characters, simplified Chinese characters in the original system, popularized Putonghua and implemented the scheme of Chinese Pinyin.
Chinese characters
Chinese characters mainly come from recordable pictographs, which are the basis of the formation and development of Chinese character system. Later, it evolved for thousands of years, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script. Now I use regular script, but it has not been completely finalized.
Chinese characters are written Chinese characters, and each word represents a syllable. Now, Mandarin is used as the standard pronunciation in Chinese mainland. The syllables of Putonghua are determined by one initial, one vowel and tone, and the actually used syllables exceed 1300. Because of the huge number of Chinese characters, there are obvious homophones; At the same time, it also exists in the case that the same word has multiple tones, which is called polyphonic words. This situation is very common in various dialects of Chinese.
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