Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters and square characters, are the recording symbols of 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 changes from graphics to strokes, pictographs to symbols, and complex to simple; 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), they are all one Chinese character and one syllable. It should be noted that Japanese, Korean, Korean, Vietnamese and other countries were deeply influenced by China culture in history, and even borrowed Chinese characters from their languages.
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The Development of Chinese Characters in China
Chinese characters, as written Chinese characters, are the main characters that have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only characters that have been circulated so far in the ancient gate-keeping system. Comparatively speaking, ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and ancient Indian scripts have all died out, so some scholars think that Chinese characters are one of the key elements to maintain the long-term unity between the north and the south of China, and some scholars list Chinese characters as China's fifth greatest invention.
Chinese characters are the main official languages in China, and now they are the practical official languages in China and Taiwan Province provinces. Chinese characters have developed to a high level in ancient times. They are not only used in China, but also used as the only international language in East Asia for a long time. Before the 20th century, it was written and standardized by Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Ryukyu and Japan. Except Chinese, all ancient East Asian countries have created their own Chinese characters to some extent.
Chinese characters in modern Chinese can be roughly divided into two standards: traditional traditional Chinese characters and later simplified Chinese characters. The former is mainly used in Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macau, while the latter is formulated and used by China and adopted by many overseas Chinese countries such as Singapore and Malaysia. In the non-Chinese character system, some Chinese characters have been simplified by Japan and become new Japanese fonts, and South Korea has also formulated an official standard for the use of Korean Chinese characters. However, in Vietnam, North Korea, Mongolia and other countries that have used Chinese characters in history, Chinese characters no longer have the official standard status.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Characters
Baidu Encyclopedia-China Chinese Characters