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country's literacy rate. The idea gained further support following the victory of the Communists in 1949, who immediately began two parallel programs regarding written Chinese. The first was the development of an alphabet to write the sounds of Mandarin, the variety spoken by around two-thirds of the Chinese population. The other program investigated the simplification of the standard character forms. Initially, character simplification was not competing with the idea of a phonetic script; rather, simplification was intended to make the transition to a fully phonetic writing system easier.
1917: 7290: 1868: 5421: 566: 2383:). Over time, Literary Chinese acquired some elements of grammar and vocabulary from various varieties of vernacular Chinese that had since diverged. By the 20th century, Literary Chinese was distinctly different from any spoken vernacular, and had to be learned separately. Once learned, it was a common medium for communication between people speaking different dialects, many of which were mutually unintelligible by the end of the first millennium CE. 2174: 2246:
instead attribute this to other education reforms and a general increase in the standard of living. Little systematic research has been conducted to support the conclusion that the use of simplified characters has affected literacy rates; studies conducted in China have instead focused on arbitrary statistics, such as quantifying the number of strokes saved on average in a given text sample. Simplified characters are standard in mainland China,
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radical. Accordingly, dictionaries often include a list of hard to locate characters, indexed by total stroke count, near the beginning of the dictionary. Some dictionaries include almost one-seventh of all characters in this list. Alternatively, some dictionaries list "difficult" characters under more than one radical, with all but one of those entries redirecting the reader to the "canonical" location of the character according to Kangxi.
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count of the character. Usually, however, there are still many characters with a given stroke count under a given radical. At this point, characters are not given in any recognizable order; the user must locate the character by going through all the characters with that stroke count, typically listed for convenience at the top of the page on which they occur.
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As characters are essentially rectilinear and are not joined with one another, written Chinese does not require a set orientation. Chinese texts were traditionally written in columns from top to bottom, which were laid out from right to left. Prior to the 20th century, Literary Chinese used little to
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Every Chinese character falls (sometimes arbitrarily or incorrectly) under the heading of exactly one of these 214 radicals. In many cases, the radicals are themselves characters, which naturally come first under their own heading. All other characters under a given radical are ordered by the stroke
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The use of punctuation has also become more common. In general, punctuation occupies the width of a full character, such that text remains visually well-aligned in a grid. Punctuation used in simplified Chinese shows clear influence from that used in Western scripts, though some marks are particular
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In the 20th century, the layout used in Western scripts—where text is written in rows from left to right, which are laid out from top to bottom—became predominant in mainland China, where it was mandated by the Chinese government in 1955. Vertical layouts are still used for aesthetic effect, or when
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Written Chinese is not based on an alphabet or syllabary, so Chinese dictionaries, as well as dictionaries that define Chinese characters in other languages, cannot easily be alphabetized or otherwise lexically ordered, as English dictionaries are. The need to arrange Chinese characters in order to
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The variation in vocabulary among varieties has also led to informal use of "dialectal characters", which may include characters previously used in Literary Chinese that are considered archaic in written Standard Chinese. Cantonese is unique among non-Mandarin regional languages in having a written
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in the language, which may either be independent words, or part of a polysyllabic word. Most characters are constructed from smaller components that may reflect the character's meaning or pronunciation. Literacy requires the memorization of thousands of characters; college-educated Chinese speakers
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Because the method of radicals is applied only to the written character, one need not know how to pronounce a character before looking it up; the entry, once located, usually gives the pronunciation. However, it is not always easy to identify which of the various roots of a character is the proper
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have also been designed. Among other purposes, these systems are used by students learning the corresponding varieties. The replacement of Chinese characters with a phonetic writing system was first prominently proposed during the May Fourth Movement, partly motivated by a desire to increase the
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Written Chinese is not based on an alphabet or syllabary. Most characters can be analyzed as compounds of smaller components, which may be assembled according to several different principles. Characters and components may reflect aspects of meaning or pronunciation. The best known exposition of
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Chinese characters have always been used to represent individual spoken syllables. While writing was being invented in the Yellow River valley, words in spoken Chinese were largely monosyllabic, and each written character corresponded to a monosyllabic word. Spoken Chinese varieties have since
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forms. Simplified characters, which merge some character forms and reduce the average stroke count per character, were developed by the Chinese government with the stated goal of increasing literacy among the population. During this time, literacy rates did increase rapidly, but some observers
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Other methods of organization exist, often in an attempt to address the shortcomings of the radical method, but are less common. For instance, it is common for a dictionary ordered principally by the Kangxi radicals to have an auxiliary index by pronunciation, expressed typically in either
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is used similarly in Taiwan and elsewhere, though it lacks the level of standardization seen in Cantonese. However, Taiwan's Ministry of Education has promulgated a standard character set for Hokkien, which is taught in schools and encouraged for use by the general population.
2162: 2213:; 'wood') must be written starting with the horizontal stroke, drawn from left to right; next, the vertical stroke, from top to bottom; next, the left diagonal stroke, from top to bottom; and lastly the right diagonal stroke, from top to bottom. 2391:, is not technically bound to any single variety; however, it most nearly represents the vocabulary and syntax of Mandarin, by far the most widespread Chinese dialectal family in terms of both geographical area and number of speakers. This form is known as 2546:(around the year 1700); these are sometimes called the Kangxi radicals. The radicals are ordered first by stroke count (that is, the number of strokes required to write the radical); within a given stroke count, the radicals also have a prescribed order. 2537:
A traditional mechanism is the method of radicals, which uses a set of character roots. These roots, or radicals, generally but imperfectly align with the parts used to compose characters by means of logical aggregation and phonetic complex. A
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to Asian languages. For example, there are double and single quotation marks (『 』 and 「 」), and a hollow full stop (。), which is used to separate sentences in an identical manner to a Western full stop. A special mark called an
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Chinese characters are written to fit into a square, even when composed of two simpler forms written side-by-side or top-to-bottom. In such cases, each form is compressed to fit the entire character into a square.
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Varieties of Chinese vary in pronunciation, and to a lesser extent in vocabulary and grammar. Modern written Chinese, which replaced Classical Chinese as the written standard as an indirect result of the 1919
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Because the majority of modern Chinese words contain more than one character, there are at least two measuring sticks for Chinese literacy: the number of characters known, and the number of words known.
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Chinese characters do not reliably indicate their pronunciation. Therefore, many transliteration systems have been developed to write the sounds of different varieties of Chinese. While many use the
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distinction that is more abundant in Mandarin. Pinyin also uses several consonantal letters to represent markedly different sounds from their assignments in other languages. For example, pinyin
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to represent the phonology of Standard Chinese. For the most part, pinyin uses phonetic values for letters that reflect their existing pronunciations in Romance languages and the
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The availability of computerized Chinese dictionaries now makes it possible to look characters up by any of the indexing schemes described, thereby shortening the search process.
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Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003). "Language Contact and Globalisation: The camouflaged influence of English on the world's languages with special attention to Israeli and Mandarin".
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is the most widely recognized script, and was considerably influenced by semi-cursive. In regular script, each stroke of each character is clearly drawn out from the others.
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that evolved from clerical script, character elements begin to run into each other, though the characters themselves generally remain discrete. This is contrasted with fully
7320: 809: 6105: 1620:; 'elder brother') is not attested in formal writing prior to the Tang dynasty, and was created from the leftmost component of the more ancient character 3978:. Translated by Mattos, Gilbert L.; Norman, Jerry. Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California. 2566:. This index points to the page in the main dictionary where the desired character can be found. Other methods use only the structure of the characters, such as the 2138: 1425:), though this term is now generally used to refer to all characters, whether simple or complex. Of these four, two construct characters from simpler parts: 1142:
know approximately 4,000. This has led in part to the adoption of complementary transliteration systems as a means of representing the pronunciation of Chinese.
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Character components can be further subdivided into individual written strokes. The strokes of Chinese characters fall into eight main categories: "horizontal"
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working prior to the wars of unification. Clerical script forms generally have a "flat" appearance, being wider than their seal script equivalents. In the
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lists 10,516 characters—9,353 of them unique (some of which may already have been out of use by the time it was compiled) plus 1,163 graphic variants—the
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Less frequently, Chinese is written in rows from right to left, usually on signage or banners, though a left to right orientation remains more common.
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is used in daily conversation in most Chinese dialects. Some dialects such as Minnan which retain features of spoken Old Chinese continue to use
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Official Taiwanese documents can no longer be written from right to left or from top to bottom in a new law passed by the country's parliament
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has become quite popular on the Internet, while Standard Chinese is still normally used in formal written communications. To a lesser degree,
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Written Chinese is one of the oldest continuously used writing systems. The earliest examples universally accepted as Chinese writing are the
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no punctuation, with the breaks between sentences and phrases determined largely by context and the rhythms implied by patterns of syllables.
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colloquial standard, used in Hong Kong and overseas, with a large number of unofficial characters for words particular to this language.
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acquired much more polysyllabic vocabulary, usually compound words composed of morphemes corresponding to older monosyllabic words
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Regular script is considered the archetypal Chinese writing and forms the basis for most printed forms. In addition, regular script
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There are eight basic rules of stroke order in writing a Chinese character, which apply only generally and are sometimes violated:
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radical on the left also being simplified. However, the same phonetic component is not reduced in simplified characters such as
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ritual container – inscription appearing twice on the vessel, comments on rituals accompanying court ceremonies.
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Wang, Gwo-En; Wang, Jhing-Fa (1994). "A New Hierarchical Approach for Recognition of Unconstrained Handwritten Numerals".
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promulgated the seal script as the standard throughout China, which had been recently united under the imperial
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followed suit in 2004 for official documents, but vertical layouts have persisted in some books and newspapers.
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The last two principles do not produce new written forms; they instead transfer new meanings to existing forms:
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Yue E Li and Christopher Upward. "Review of the process of reform in the simplification of Chinese Characters".
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permit efficient lookup has given rise to a considerable variety of ways to organize and index the characters.
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concludes that the Chinese writing system is multifunctional, conveying both semantic and phonetic content.
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in Anhui—has suggested that these symbols were precursors to Chinese writing. However, the palaeographer
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Language Styling and Switching in Speech and Online Contexts: Identity and Language Ideologies in Taiwan
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developed, with speakers of mutually unintelligible varieties able to communicate through writing using
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Simplified forms have also been characterized as being inconsistent. For instance, the traditional
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Over the history of written Chinese, a variety of media have been used for writing. They include:
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argues instead that the time gap is too great to establish any connection. From the
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Keightley, David N. (1996). "Art, Ancestors, and the Origins of Writing in China".
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Beginning in the mid-20th century, Chinese has primarily been written using either
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space limitations require it, such as on signage or book spines. The government of
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Thorp, Robert L. (1981). "The Date of Tomb 5 at Yinxu, Anyang: A Review Article".
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wine container – inscription commemorates a gift of cowrie shells.
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Chinese written from top-to-bottom on restaurant and bus stop signs in Hong Kong
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By 1958, official priorities had shifted towards character simplification. The
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eyes', with the other part being another character used for its phonetic value.
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in terms of breadth, and it is still relevant to etymological research today.
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The remaining four principles produce complex characters historically called
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Cantonese as Written Language: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular
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For over two thousand years, the predominant form of written Chinese was
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In 2003, 11 isolated symbols carved on tortoise shells were found at the
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In a symmetrical character, the middle is drawn first, then the sides.
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Since at least the Han dynasty, such media have been used to create
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If a character is framed from above, the frame is written first.
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If a character is framed from below, the frame is written last.
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distinction in languages such as French instead represent the
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In contrast to the popular conception of written Chinese as
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Left-falling strokes are written before right-falling ones.
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set of 214 radicals was developed during the rule of the
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Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagging for Classical Chinese
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Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters
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Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems
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exclusively for 'elder brother' in daily conversation.
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Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts
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Horizontal strokes are written before vertical ones.
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The Jiahu site dates from 1630:; 'to sing'). The ancient character 1539:'), which is used for its pronunciation. 2254:, while traditional characters are standard in 3627: 3247: 3235: 6099: 4050: 3026:Hawaiʻi Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture 2016:University of Science and Technology of China 1085: 403: 387: 47: 8: 3953:Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics 3681:(Ph.D. thesis). Austin: University of Texas. 2445:, invented no later than the 2nd century BCE 6186: 6106: 6092: 6084: 6070: 5846: 5837: 5762: 5190: 4909: 4802: 4793: 4426: 4098: 4089: 4057: 4043: 4035: 3905:ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese 2972: 1798:Characters are written from left to right. 1795:Characters are written from top to bottom. 1092: 1078: 553: 440: 86: 3744:Chinese language processing and computing 3703: 3642:IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 3615: 3591: 3470:Cambridge Review of International Affairs 3455: 3390: 3354: 3271: 3075: 3063: 3051: 2948: 2749: 2734: 2704:Especially when distinguished from other 2628:(IPA). However, pairs of letters such as 1199:are not written, there are traditions of 7321:Writing systems using Chinese characters 2660:correspond to sounds similar to English 2052: – 771 BCE) and the 7273: 2906: 2724: 2697: 2133: 1137:in length, but generally correspond to 556: 3822:McNaughton, William; Ying, Li (1999). 3786:The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy 3691: 3603: 3574: 3514: 3502: 3443: 3431: 3419: 3402: 3378: 3366: 3342: 3295: 3283: 3259: 3223: 3211: 3199: 3172: 3160: 3102: 3039: 3003: 2984: 2960: 2933: 2921: 2902: 2779: 2764: 1488:): in which one part—often called the 535: 312: 306: 195: 29: 1676:, a character that is now pronounced 1237:Chinese character composition is the 7: 2620:Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet with 2439:, from at least the 13th century BCE 2107:can be attributed to scribes in the 2103:The initial adaptation of seal into 837:Standard Form of National Characters 3116:"Taiwan Law Orders One-Way Writing" 2283:; 'allow' is simplified to 1682:and means 'host', or the character 1115:and other symbols to represent the 3533:Learning, Language, and Technology 3088:Huang, Liang; et al. (2002). 2217:Simplification and standardization 2041:on ritual bronzes made during the 25: 3723:Learn to Write Chinese Characters 3187:"Earliest Writing Found in China" 7288: 7276: 6069: 5547:Literary and colloquial readings 5419: 3138:Understanding Chinese Characters 2451:, since at least the Han dynasty 2184: 2172: 2160: 2148: 2136: 1946: 1915: 1267:Chinese character classification 1127:. Rather, the writing system is 926:Literary and colloquial readings 564: 3907:. University of Hawaiʻi Press. 3807:. University of Hawaiʻi Press. 3788:. University of Hawaiʻi Press. 2626:International Phonetic Alphabet 2372:, as spoken around the time of 2288: 1777: 1769: 1761: 1753: 1745: 1737: 1729: 1721: 1713: 365: 341: 302: 288: 274: 260: 239: 218: 3997:. Hong Kong University Press. 3956:. Cambridge University Press. 3888:. Princeton University Press. 3867:The origins of Chinese writing 3850:. Cambridge University Press. 3784:——— (1984). 2882:. 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(1994). 3482:10.1080/09557570302045 2607:Perso-Arabic alphabets 2357: 2201:imposes a stroke order 1976:Chinese ritual bronzes 1875: 1834: 1355:; 'tree'). 1345:; 'sun'), 1233: 1053:Slavonic transcription 896:Japanese script reform 881:Traditional characters 6458:Classical orthography 6292:Standard Written Form 3185:Rincon, Paul (2003). 3136:Go, Ping-gam (1995). 2640:that correspond to a 2340: 2305:; 'soil' and 2243:traditional character 2128:Chinese script styles 2068:Warring States period 1870: 1832: 1819:Further information: 1430:Ideographic compounds 1389:; 'up'), 1222: 1123:or syllabograms in a 869:Simplified characters 6528:Montenegrin alphabet 3922:Wieger, L. 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Chinese
中文
Hanyu Pinyin
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Bopomofo
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Wade–Giles
Tongyong Pinyin
Yale Romanization
IPA

Wu
Romanization
Hakka
Romanization
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
Canton Romanization
IPA


Southern Min
Hokkien
POJ
Eastern Min
Fuzhou
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