Chinese writing symbols. One of the oldest scripts in the world. The oldest and most recognizable Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago and the later inscriptions on bronze.
Generally, a Chinese character represents a syllable. At present, Chinese characters can be divided into two categories: pure ideographic characters without phonetic components (such as Japanese, Blade and Hugh) 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 within the original system, popularized Putonghua and implemented the Chinese Pinyin Scheme.
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Chinese characters mainly originate from pictographic pictures that can be recorded, and pictographic characters are the basis for the formation and development of Chinese character system. Later, the evolution has gone through thousands of years, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script. Now, regular script is used, but it has not been fully finalized.
Chinese characters are written Chinese characters, and each character represents a syllable. Nowadays, Mandarin is used as the standard pronunciation in Chinese mainland. The syllables of Mandarin are determined by an initial, a vowel and tone, and more than 1300 syllables are actually used. Because of the huge number of Chinese characters, there are obvious homophones; At the same time, there are cases where the same word has multiple tones, which are called polyphonic words. This situation is common in various dialects of Chinese.
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