What are the characteristics of Chinese characters?

It has become an art-calligraphy art, and the calligraphy art of Chinese characters can't be compared with any other words. The following ancient calligraphy works have become priceless. There are many famous works, such as Preface to Lanting, Monument to Shengde of Shence Army, Mysterious Pagoda Monument, and Sacrifice to My Nephew.

2, high recognition.

The field of vision of human eyes is always a surface, not a line, so linear arrangement is difficult to identify; Form a square at a glance. Pinyin text = linear text; Chinese character = box symbol. Chinese characters are more efficient than pinyin characters in reading.

3, image, intuitive.

Chinese characters are hieroglyphics, and their distinctive features are closely related in form and meaning, and their intuitive meaning is obvious. The ideographic nature of Chinese characters makes it the most informative character in the world, so it is easy to identify and associate, which also brings great convenience to speed up reading.

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Chinese characters have been used for the longest time in a row so far, and they are the only ones in all kinds of ghost writing systems in ancient times. Chinese characters have always been the main official characters of China's dynasties.

Chinese characters have developed to a highly complete level in ancient times. They are not only used in China, but also used as the only international communication language in East Asia for a long time. Before the 20th century, they were the official written and standardized characters of Japan, Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Ryukyu and other countries, and all East Asian countries created their own Chinese characters to some extent.

In the non-Chinese character system, some Japanese characters have been simplified into new Japanese fonts by themselves, and South Korea has also formulated an official standard for the use of Korean characters. In Vietnam, Korea, Mongolia and other countries that have used Chinese characters in history, Chinese characters no longer have the status of official norms.

Chinese characters are ideographic characters, and a Chinese character usually represents a word or a morpheme in Chinese, which forms the characteristics of unity of sound, form and meaning. Chinese characters are square characters composed of strokes, so they are also called square characters.

Such as "che", "Shang" and "Ming", directly express the meaning of language in the form of words; "Question" can refer to both meaning and sound, "door" refers to sound, and "mouth" refers to meaning.

In the course of thousands of years, Chinese characters have evolved from the most primitive stone inscriptions into "seven-style Chinese characters", namely: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script and running script.

Chinese characters are the bond of national soul. Making a living in a foreign country, Chinese characters are a kind of sustenance. Even a plaque, a piece of paper, and the square characters on it will attract you like a magnet and make you feel the kindness from your motherland. Because China people's feelings are condensed into the simplest.

Every stroke is written in Chinese. Overseas, whether successful or wandering, as long as there are Chinese characters, there will be much comfort and sustenance, because every word has a far-reaching origin, whether pictographic or ideographic, whether knowing or speaking, every China person is the soul of Chinese characters.

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