-
The least populous script is also used in China. This least spoken script is only used among women in Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, and is known locally as "Nüshu". At the time of the discovery of this script, only two people in their eighties were able to master it.
-
Chinese characters are the most spoken script in the world. Chinese characters are magical: to date, only Chinese characters, which have been self-originating and ancient, have survived for thousands of years, becoming typical representatives of ideograms.
This became a mystery of world culture.
The Chinese characters are very beautiful: a pinch and a pinch, a fold and a hook, sometimes like Xiling snow, Dongwu boat, sometimes like desert sand, Yin Mountain and Moon. Horizontal and vertical, square but not rigid; It is angular, vivid and connotative.
Chinese characters are also very cultural: archaeological research can confirm the history of Chinese characters for at least 3,300 years, no wonder some scholars say that Chinese characters are a cultural history.
The interpretation of Chinese characters has become a hot topic in the book industry
Chinese characters are born of human beings and are the outward expression of human insight and wisdom. Most of the emotions of the Chinese cannot escape the expression of Chinese characters. The purpose of interpreting Chinese characters is to meet the cultural needs of people who are eager to learn and think deeply about Chinese characters.
At present, the interpretation of Chinese characters in the publishing industry is very lively, and if you go to the bookstore, you will find many books that introduce Chinese characters.
Ideally, the interpretation of Chinese characters should help readers have a clearer and more in-depth understanding of Chinese characters, master certain methods of Chinese character interpretation, and improve cultural taste. But at present, it seems that such books are either academic works with a high threshold, and it is difficult to read without professional training;
Either they are superficial, detached from philological materials and theories, and interpret them according to their respective knowledge backgrounds and expression needs, which are arbitrary, and even some of them are wrong interpretations of Chinese characters. There are still not many books on the interpretation of Chinese characters that are both academic and simple, giving people knowledge, fun, and enlightenment. In this regard, scholars who study Chinese characters have an unshirkable responsibility.
The above content reference: People's Daily Online - Tell every Chinese character story well (open the book to know the new).
-
The earliest surviving Chinese characters are the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin Shang period in about 1300 BC, which appeared in the Jin script later, evolved into the Great Seal in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to the small seal of the Qin Dynasty to unify the Six Kingdoms script, the official script appeared at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the cursive script appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, and the regular script and the line script appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The strokes of oracle bone inscription, golden inscription, and seal script are continuous and tactful, and the strokes of Lishu become horizontal and vertical, becoming pure square characters, which are easy to write, and have become the division between ancient and modern Chinese characters.
-
No. Chinese students all learn English, which of the English departments in which countries do they learn English? Add in the hundreds of millions of Chinese students who learn English, and English is the most used script in the world. Don't forget, India's population is about the same as China's, and their official language is English.
-
Yes, because Chinese use Chinese characters, and the Chinese population accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, but Chinese characters are not the most widely used script, because Chinese characters are only prevalent in East Asia, and English is the most widely used script in the world today.
-
Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters, and national characters, is a script widely used in the Chinese character cultural circle, belonging to the ideogram morpheme syllabic script, invented and created and improved by the Chinese people in ancient times, and the current exact history can be traced back to the oracle bone script of the Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC. Then to the small seal of the Qin Dynasty, it was named "Chinese characters" in the Han Dynasty, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that Kaihua became the handwritten font standard used today - Kaishu. Some scholars believe that Chinese characters are one of the key elements that have maintained the long-term unification of the north and south of China, and some scholars list Chinese characters as the fifth greatest invention in China.
Chinese characters have been the main official language in all Chinese dynasties. Regarding the history of Chinese characters, based on the existing ancient documents and archaeological discoveries that have been confirmed, it has a history of at least 5,000 years, and the history of the origin of Chinese characters is the beginning of ancient Chinese civilization, so we usually say that the Han people have a history of 5,000 years of civilization.
Archaeological and documentary records show that Chinese characters originated in the Yangshao culture period of the Neolithic Age, about 4000 BC, and began to enter the stage of character accumulation in 2000 BC, and a fairly systematic writing system has been formed in the Shang Dynasty.
Simplified and traditional characters.
The name Chinese character, named after the Han and Han dynasties, is the most spoken script in the world, and it is also the most widely circulated script.
In the course of the evolution of Chinese characters over thousands of years, there have been many divergences. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the 50s of the 20th century, special institutions were organized to standardize the morphological and phonetic meanings of Chinese characters, commonly known as "simplified characters" (Chinese characters before the 50s were commonly known as "traditional characters"), and popularized and popularized reference books such as "Xinhua Dictionary" and "Modern Chinese Dictionary". At present, simplified Chinese characters are used in Southeast Asian regions such as Chinese mainland, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, while "traditional characters" are still used in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
-
As of March 17, 2023, the global population is 7.8 billion Chinese, accounting for 18% of the total population
-
Chinese characters are the most used script by the world's population. Chinese characters were produced during the Shang Dynasty in the 16th century BC. Chinese characters are the longest and most widely used script, and they are the only ones that have been passed down to the present day in the major writing systems of ancient times, and Chinese characters have been used as the main official script in all Chinese dynasties.
In ancient times, Chinese characters also served as the only international communication script in East Asia, and until the 20th century, it was still the official written standard script of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, the Ryukyus and other countries. In the non-Chinese system, the Japanese simplified Chinese characters and developed new Japanese scripts, while Vietnam, Korea, Mongolia, and other countries that used Chinese characters in history have now abandoned Chinese characters.
-
There is no exact number of Chinese characters, but the number of Chinese characters is about 100,000 (Beijing Guoan Information Equipment Co., Ltd.'s Chinese character database has 91,251 Chinese characters).
According to statistics, 1,000 commonly used words can cover about 92% of written materials, 2,000 words can cover more than 98%, and 3,000 words have reached 99%.
Chinese characters are by far the longest continuously used script, and they are the only ones of the major writing systems in antiquity that have been passed down to the present day, and Chinese characters have been used as the main official script in all Chinese dynasties. Chinese characters have developed to a high level of sophistication in ancient times, and were not only used in China, but also served as the only international communication script in East Asia for a long time.
Chinese characters in a broad sense refer to characters from oracle bone script, large seal, golden script, 籀文, small seal, to official script, cursive script, regular script, line script, etc., and in a narrow sense, it refers to Chinese characters with block letters as the standard writing method for arguments, which is also the modern Chinese character commonly used today. Chinese characters were invented, created and improved by the Han ancestors in ancient times.
-
It is a Chinese character that was produced during the Shang Dynasty in the 16th century BC. Chinese characters are by far the longest continuously used script, and they are the only ones that have been passed down to the present day among the major writing systems of antiquity, and Chinese characters have been the main official script in all Chinese dynasties.
Writing is the greatest invention in the history of mankind, and without the emergence of writing, no matter how many years mankind has experienced, it would be impossible to talk about it. So, which is the most populous script in the world?
01 In ancient times, Chinese characters were the only international communication script in East Asia, and until the 20th century, they were still the official written standard script of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, the Ryukyus, and other countries.
02 In non-Chinese systems, the Japanese simplified Chinese characters and developed new Japanese fonts. Vietnam, Korea, Mongolia and other countries that used Chinese characters in history have now abandoned them.
03 Chinese characters are the bond of the soul of the nation, making a living in a foreign country, Chinese characters are a kind of sustenance, even if it is a plaque, a small strip of paper, the square words on it will attract you like a magnet, so that you feel the cordiality from the motherland. Because the Chinese feelings have been condensed into the simplest horizontal and vertical skimming. Every stroke is written with Chinese blood.
04 Overseas, whether you are famous or adrift, as long as you are accompanied by the square word, you will have a few more comforts and more sustenance, because whether it is pictographic or signifying, whether it is meaning or shape, every word has a far-reaching origin, and every Chinese is that one by one, and has become the soul of the square word.
05 More than 100 years ago, Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Yirong discovered a small carving on a Chinese herbal medicine known as "dragon bone". Later, experts verified that these carvings were oracle bone inscriptions, thus advancing China's written history by 1,000 years.
Give an accurate and incisive :
In order to meet people's increasingly complex communication needs, writing is created by people on the basis of simple painting and memorization, and is created by the ancestors of the Han people in long-term social practice. >>>More
Want to know how Chinese characters are created? Come and listen to the story of kanji with me and learn about the origin of kanji.
Oracle bone inscriptions, gold inscriptions to official scripts, seal scripts, regular scripts, and line scripts.
Writing was first formed by simple figures, and in the early days it was closer to pictures, and in order to better remember things, it began to be simplified into picturesque words (such as pictographs). >>>More
Many scholars believe that Tao Wen is the earliest prototype of Chinese writing. >>>More