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Reference Information to Ease Your Chinese Character Study

Chinese characters seem the most difficultsix categories, namely pictogram, ideograph,
part for foreign friends to learn the Chineselogical aggregates, pictophonetic compounds,
language. In my opinion, the main reason forborrowing and associate transformation.
that may be Chinese characters look veryHowever, the last twos are often omitted, for
different from their quarter parts in thethe characters of these categories have been
Roman languages: each character representscreated before but somehow borrowed to
not only the pronunciation, but a certainrepresent another meaning, or detached into
meaning. Many a complaint comes from thatseparate words. Generally, Chinese characters
Chinese characters are so unlike each otherfall into four categories in view of their
that you have to learn them one by one, andorigin.Pictograms  (Xiang4  xing2  zi4)
there are so many to memory, and that when
encountering a new character, the previousPictograms are the earliest characters to
knowledge of other ones helps little, you cancreate, and they usually reflect the shape of
neither pronounce it directly nor guess whatphysical objects. Examples include the sun,
it means. Actually, there really are somethe moon, a woman, fire. From this
connections between Chinese characters, allpicture-drawing method, the other character
composed in a defined way. You are unable toforming principles were subsequently
discover that probably because the numbers ofdeveloped. Over a long history, pictograms
the characters you know are too limited, orhave evolved from irregular drawing into a
you didn't learn them in the Chinesedefinite form, most simplified by losing
perspective.Chinese characters are thecertain strokes to make ease of writing.
writing system to record the ChineseTherefore, to see the actual picture of what
language. With a history as long as 8,000it represents, you must have a lot of
years at least, it's perhaps the oldestimagination as well as knowledge of the
surviving writing system in the world. An oldorigin of the character and its evolution.
Chinese legend said that Chinese charactersHowever, only a very small portion of Chinese
were invented by Cangjie, a historiancharacters falls into this category, not more
official under the legendary emperor, Huangdithan  5  percent.Ideograph  (Zhi3  shi4  zi4)
in 2600 BC. Obviously, the fable cannot
possibly be true, for the creation of a greatAlso called a simple indicative, Ideograph
writing system made of so many characters areusually describes an abstract concept. It's a
such a huge project, too huge to be onecombination of indicators, or adds an
single person's accomplishment. But perhapsindicator to a pictograph. For example, a
Cangjie really made some contributions in theshort horizontal bar on top of a circular arc
existing Chinese writing system: instead ofrepresents an idea of up or on top of.
the inventor, he might be a collector andAnother example: placing an indicative
collator of scattered Chinese characters inhorizontal bar at the lower part of a
ancient China. Thanks to many a contributorpictogram for wood, makes an ideograph for
like Cangjie and the common people using and"root". Like pictograms, the number of this
spreading characters, a completecategory is also small, less than 2
well-developed writing system had finallypercent.Logical  aggregates  (Hui4  yi4  zi1)
come to birth. The indisputably evidence is
Chinese character inscriptions found onIt is a combination of pictograms to
turtle shells dating back to the Shangrepresent a meaning, rather like telling a
dynasty (1766-1123 BC), formally calledlittle story. A pictograph for person on the
Oracle bone script. Of the 4,600 known Oracleleft with a pictogram for wood on the right
bone logographs, about 1,000 can bemakes a aggregate for "rest". This
identified with later Chinese characters, andstory-telling formation is relatively easier
the other unidentifiable ones are mostly theto learn, yet most of aggregates have been
names of people, places or clans.In view ofreformed into phonetic compounds, or just
formation, written Chinese is a script ofreplaced by them.Pictophonetic compounds
ideograms. Xu Shen, in the Eastern Han(Xing2  sheng1  zi4)
Dynasty (121 AD), was a distinguished scholar
who had attained unparalleled fame for hisAlso called semantic-phonetic compounds,
etymological dictionary entitled Shuo Wen Jiejust as the name implies, it combines a
Zi, whose literal meaning is "explainingsemantic element with a phonetic element,
written language and parsing words". In Shuotaking the meaning from one and the phonetics
wen, Chinese characters are classified intofrom the other.



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