18 Facts About Chinese character

These foreign adaptations of Chinese character pronunciation are known as Sino-Xenic pronunciations and have been useful in the reconstruction of Middle Chinese character.

For example, many additional readings have the Middle Chinese character departing tone, the major source of the 4th tone in modern Standard Chinese character.

Each Chinese character is an attempt to combine sound, image, and idea in a mutually reinforcing fashion.

Soon, people in the Movement started to cite the traditional Chinese character writing system as an obstacle in modernising China and therefore proposed that a reform be initiated.

Until the early 20th century, Literary Chinese character was used in Vietnam for all official and scholarly writing.

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Oldest writing Chinese character materials found in Vietnam is an epigraphy dated 618, erected by local Sui dynasty officials in Thanh Hoa.

The oldest writing Vietnamese chu Nom script written along with Chinese character is a Buddhist inscription, dated 1209.

Indeed, this desire by the Kuomintang to simplify the Chinese character writing system nursed aspirations of some for the adoption of a phonetic script based on the Latin script, and spawned such inventions as the Gwoyeu Romatzyh.

The Chinese character yun was written with the structure in the oracle bone script of the Shang dynasty, and had remained in use later as a phonetic loan in the meaning of "to say" while the radical was added a semantic indicator to disambiguate the two.

The basic Chinese character shapes are suggested, rather than explicitly realized, and the abbreviations are sometimes extreme.

Every character from the Chinese scripts is built into a uniform shape by means of assigning it a geometric area in which the character must occur.

Each Chinese character has a set number of brushstrokes; none must be added or taken away from the Chinese character to enhance it visually, lest the meaning be lost.

The fact that it represents a syllable that does not exist in any Standard Chinese word means that it could be classified as a dialectal character.

The number of entries in major Chinese dictionaries is the best means of estimating the historical growth of character inventory.

For example, few Gan speakers would recognize the Chinese character meaning 'to lean' in their dialect, because this Chinese character has become archaic in Standard Mandarin.

Specifically, Chinese coined new characters for chemical elements – see Chemical elements in East Asian languages – which continue to be used and taught in schools in China and Taiwan.

The right half of the Chinese character contains four strokes, so the user locates the number 4, and turns to the page number given.

Some dictionaries have a sub-index which lists every Chinese character containing each radical, and if the user knows the number of strokes in the non-radical portion of the Chinese character, he or she can locate the correct page directly.