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  2. 1 day ago · There are currently two systems for Chinese characters. Traditional characters, used in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and many overseas Chinese speaking communities, largely take their form from received character forms dating back to the late Han dynasty and standardized during the Ming.

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  3. May 5, 2024 · Standard Chinese is written with characters corresponding to syllables of the language, most of which represent a morpheme. In most cases, these characters come from those used in Classical Chinese to write cognate morphemes of late Old Chinese, though their pronunciation, and often meaning, has shifted dramatically over two millennia.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PinyinPinyin - Wikipedia

    3 days ago · As Pinyin is a phonetic writing system for modern Standard Chinese, it is not designed to replace characters for writing Literary Chinese, the standard written language prior to the early 1900s.

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › KanjiKanji - Wikipedia

    5 days ago · As of September 25, 2017, the jinmeiyō kanji (人名用漢字, kanji for use in personal names) consists of 863 characters. Kanji on this list are mostly used in people's names and some are traditional variants of jōyō kanji.

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  6. 5 days ago · In the study of the composition of Chinese characters, there is a traditional theory known as Liu Shu (six writings). That is, there are six types of characters in the terms of their composition: xiangxing (pictographic), zhishi (indicatives), huiyi (ideographic), xingsheng (phonetic compounds), zhuanzhu (mutual explanatory), and jiajie ...

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