Chinese writing system

The first fully developed Chinese writing as we know it today the inscriptions on tortoise shells and ox shoulder blades, commonly known as script of Oracle bone that appeared in the mid-Millennium BC, during the late Shang dynasty.

Unlike a phonographic writing as that of English where each letter of the alphabet encoded a telephone, write China is a logographic with each grapheme (or character) system simultaneously encoding sounds and what it means that the level of the syllable. As a logographic system, Chinese script has the great advantage that is not necessary for a person who knows how to decode the writing system to learn how to pronounce the characters to be able to read messages written on them.

Writing Chinese, however, it is not only a system of Visual cues or ideograms, which represent various concepts or ideas that are completely divorced from the pronunciation. A literary speaker in any Chinese dialect may immediately pronounce a Chinese character in its own dialect. The character, as a logographic with a simple graphic structure, makes do not represent any phone determined within a Word, but a syllable associated with a Chinese morpheme written as a representation of the morpheme-syllable system is systematically phoneticized, i.e., the characters are readable.

In modern Chinese, characters, or graphemes are known as hanzi, literally "Have characters" is named after the dynasty have (206 BCE-220 CE). It was during the dynasty have said written Chinese was largely standardized at a time when writing brushes, ink, ink and paper, stone wenfang sibao "four treasures in a Studio", became standard tools of Chinese writing.

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