Does anyone have any information about Chinese characters?

From the ancient legend of Cangjie's creation of Chinese characters to the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions more than 100 years ago, Chinese scholars have been committed to unraveling the mystery of the origin of Chinese characters. Regarding the origin of Chinese characters, there are all sorts of sayings in ancient Chinese literature, such as "knotting rope", "gossip", "drawings", "book contract", etc. The ancient books have been written in the same way as the ancient books. "and so on, the ancient books are also commonly recorded in the yellow emperor historian Cangjie create word legend. Modern scholars believe that the systematic writing tools can not be created entirely by one person, Cangjie if indeed there is a person, should be the text organizer or promulgator.

Earliest engraved symbols more than 8,000 years ago

In recent decades, the Chinese archaeological community has released a series of unearthed materials related to the origins of Chinese characters that are older than the oracle-bone inscriptions of Anyang Yinxu. These materials mainly refer to the engraved or painted symbols that appeared on top of pottery in the late primitive society and early historical society, in addition to a small number of symbols engraved on top of oracle bones, jade and stone tools, etc. They can be said to be the same as the symbols on top of the oracle bones. It can be said that they ****together provide a new basis for explaining the origin of Chinese characters.

By systematically examining and comparing the inscribed symbols on pottery shards unearthed from more than 100 sites of 19 archaeological cultures throughout China, Wang Yunzhi, a doctoral supervisor at Zhengzhou University, concluded that the earliest inscribed symbols in China appeared at the Jiahu site in Maoyang, Henan Province, more than 8,000 years ago.

As a professional worker, he tries to further organize these original materials through scientific means, such as the comprehensive use of archaeology, paleography, comparative literalism, scientific and technological archaeology, and high-tech means, so as to identify some clues about the occurrence and development of Chinese characters before the Shang Dynasty.

However, the situation is not so simple, in addition to the Zhengzhou Mall site, small double bridge site (the site in recent years has found more than 10 cases of early Shang Dynasty Zhu Shu pottery text) of the small amount of material can be directly compared with the order of the Yinxu text, the other symbols before the Shang Dynasty is scattered, each other missing ring more, most of the symbols and with the Shang Dynasty text is not in the right shape. There are also some symbols with heavy regional colors and complex backgrounds.

The 500 most commonly used Chinese characters

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It is reported that, from the point of view of the unearthed writing materials in archaeological excavations, China already had a formal script at least during the Yu Xia period. For example, in recent years, archaeologists once in Shanxi Xiangfen Taosi site of a flat pottery pot, found on the brush Zhu Shu "Wen" character. These symbols belong to the basic form of the early writing system, but it is a pity that such excavated information is still scarce.

Writing first matured during the Shang Dynasty

As far as we know and as far as we can see, there were many types of writing carriers. At that time, in addition to writing with a brush on a simple book, the other main means of writing is engraved on tortoise shell and animal bone, pottery, jade, and pottery cast on bronze. The Shang Dynasty writing materials, with the bones and bronze ritual objects used for divination in Yinxu as the main carriers, are the earliest mature writing found in China so far.

The Shang Dynasty script reflected in the Yinxu period is not only characterized by a large number of characters and rich materials, but also by the fact that the way of making characters has formed its own characteristics and laws. The basic characters of the Shang Dynasty can be divided into four categories: the human body and a part of the human form as the basis for the construction of the word; to the creation of labor and labor objects as the basis for the construction of the word; to take the image of beasts and domestic animals as the basis for the construction of the word; to take the image of natural objects as the basis for the construction of the word. From the cultural connotation of the shape of the study, these mature earlier cut the object of the shape of the word and when the ancestors of the social life is quite close, with a strong reality of the characteristics. At the same time, the content depicted in these glyphs involves all aspects of human beings and nature, and is therefore characterized by a wide range of sources.

1. Oracle bone writing

Oracle bone writing is the script of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, which was only used by a few diviners and historians. It was mainly written on tortoise shell and animal bone with a knife. Because of the hardness of tortoise shell and animal bone, the strokes are mainly straight and folded, rarely rounded. Because of the sharp knife carved oracle bone carving, so the lines are fine and even. Oracle is the earliest Chinese characters, with the characteristics of early Chinese characters: strong pictorial, writing style is not stereotyped, size, arbitrariness.

Try to guess what the six ancient characters in the picture below are:

Answer:

Zhen Yu Yu

(会意) (象形) (象形) (象形)

Jin Qi Zhi (今其 疾)

(会意) (象形) (会意) (象形) (会意)

2．Jin Wen

Golden writing is also known as Zhong Dingwen (钟鼎文), which was popularized in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is a script cast and engraved on bronzes. The form and structure of Jinwen is similar to that of Oracle Bone Script, because Jinwen is engraved on the mold and then cast, it is easier to write, so its strokes are characterized by: rounded characters, uniform size. The hieroglyphic nature is reduced compared to oracle bone script, and the stereotyped nature of the characters is improved, but there are still more variant characters.

3. Seal Script

Seal Script is divided into Big Seal Script and Small Seal Script. The Big Seal Script is a kind of script of the late Western Zhou Dynasty when King Xuan of the Zhou Dynasty, also known as the Preliminary Script, there are the Stone Drum Script of the Qin Dynasty during the Warring States Period and the literacy textbook "Shi Zhou Zhuan Shi", which was used by King Xuan of the Zhou Dynasty, and the other kind of scripts. The shape and characteristics of the script are largely the same as those of Jinwen, characterized by a large number of strokes. The Small Seal Script was a unified script issued during the Qin Dynasty when the policy of writing in the same script was implemented, and the script was changed by Li Si and others after organizing the texts. Because it was officially issued as a unified script, it was sorted out and simplified, so the number of variant characters was greatly reduced, and the shape of the characters was rectangular, laying the foundation for the "square shape" of Chinese characters. The strokes of the Small Seal are more even and neat, the lines are the same thickness and more rounded, the symbolic nature has been enhanced, and the pictorial meaning has greatly disappeared. Because the Small Seal Script is simplified from the Big Seal Script, it is generally said that the Small Seal Script is the simplified version of the Big Seal Script.

Small Seal Script:The pine is the oldest by the crane's nest, the rain is clearing on the cactus, the river is sounding, and the shore is broken by a thousand feet

4. Official Script

Originally, Official Script arose in the Qin Dynasty, and flourished in the Han Dynasty. In the Qin Dynasty, the official script was parallel to the Small Seal Script, which was a convenient script for the clerks to transcribe official documents in daily life. The Small Seal Script was difficult to write and could not adapt to the needs of official correspondence in the Qin Dynasty, and was mostly used in more formal occasions. In order to make it easier to write quickly, the official script changed the rounded and even lines of the Small Seal Script into square, straight, thick and thin strokes, and the long and cohesive style of the Small Seal Script into a horizontal and flat one; at this time, the official script became a symbol for Chinese characters that were no longer pictograms. The change in the font of the Chinese characters was so great that the term "scribal change" became the demarcation between ancient and modern Chinese characters. Chinese characters before the Small Seal Script are ancient Chinese characters. They are characterized by strong hieroglyphics and poor stereotypes, and the characters are made up of lines, without the formation of strokes, which are the elements of character formation. The characters after the official script are the present-day Chinese characters. Present-day Chinese characters are characterized by strong symbolism and stereotypicality, and the characters are composed of a limited variety of strokes. During the Han Dynasty, the official writing style of Chinese characters was called "Han Li" (also known as present-day Li), replacing the Small Seal Script. There are various writing styles of Han Li, one with square strokes, such as the Zhang Qian Stele, and one with round strokes, such as the Cao Quan Stele.

Editing the Principles of Character Creation

The Six Books are the basic principles of Chinese character formation, which are mentioned in the Zhou Rites, but the specific contents are not specified. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xu Shen, in his Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Explaining Characters in Chinese), elaborated on the principles of Chinese character construction: Xiang Xiang (象形), Zhu Yi (指事), Huan Yi (会意), Shuo Xing (形声), Zhu Zhu Xiang (转注), and Fu Biao (假借).

Imagery: This method of creating characters is based on the external features of the object to depict, so-called painting into its object, with the body of the micro-question is also. Such as the sun, the moon, the mountains, water and other four characters, the earliest is to depict the sun, the moon, the mountains, the water of the pattern, and later gradually evolved into the current shape.

This refers to the method of expressing abstract things, the so-called "each refers to its own thing" is also. For example, it is written as "up" for Bu and "down" for human.

Shaped sound: This is a sound that is specific to a particular shape (the root of the character) within a script. For example, the character hu can be a root character, which can be combined with different attribute roots to form: 蝴,蝴, 湖, 葫, 瑚, 醐, and so on, and with the same pronunciation (some only have the same vowel), it can express different things. However, because of the phonological changes in ancient and modern languages, many of the same kind of ancient form-sounding characters in today's official language have no **** the same phonemes.

Huiyi: This is a method of creating characters that combines two roots to create new meanings. For example, if "sun" and "moon" are combined, it means sunlight plus moonlight becomes "bright". The character "人" and "言" are combined to form the character "信", which means what a person has said in the past; and "有信", which means that the person has kept what he has said.

Transparent note: This is used for the two words for each other as a note, each other the same meaning but not the same form, the Han Dynasty Xu Shen explained: "build a class of a song, agree to accept each other, Kao, Lao is also." This is how to say? These two words, "kao" can be used as "longevity", "old", "kao" is the same, the same meaning, namely The meaning of "old" and "kao" is the same, i.e., the so-called "old man kao" and "kao" is old. The poem "Daya? thorny shrubs" also reads, "The king of Zhou lived long and prospered." The poem "Qu Yuan Pagoda" by Su Shi also reads Su Shi's "Qu Yuan Tower Poem" also has the phrase "Who will not die? A phrase. The phrase ""kao"" means "old", and it is particularly noteworthy that later literalists also made a great deal of interpretations of Xu Shen's previous definition. These include the three categories of "form to say, sound to say, meaning to say", but these three say some people think it is not comprehensive enough, contemporary ancient literalist Mr. Lin Rushing also explains that "to note" is a form (the root of the word) to record the two readings and meanings of the two words are completely different. For example, the words "broom and woman" are used in the Chinese language. For example, "broom and woman" and "mother and daughter" in the oracle bone inscriptions.

False borrowing: In short, this method borrows a word to express something else. Generally speaking, when there is a new thing that cannot be described, a character with a similar pronunciation or attribute is borrowed to express the new thing. For example, "又" originally meant right hand (first seen in the oracle bone inscriptions), but was later borrowed to mean "也是". Wen, originally means to listen to something with one's ears. For example, in "University - Chapter 7", there is "to see but not see, to hear but not hear, to eat but not know the taste", but later it was borrowed as a verb to smell (but some people think it is a misuse).

Summary of the above six books, the first two, "the law of making words" also; in the two, "grouping words" also; after the two, "the law of using words" also. These six principles are the theories of word studies summarized by ancient scholars of philology. The laws of Chinese character composition contained therein have evolved over a long period of time, and are not original creations of any one person.

Editing the Structure of Chinese Characters

Chinese characters are composed of one or more radicals in a two-dimensional manner (in the Eurasian language system, it is a one-dimensional script) in a specific space, configured in a square box, hence the nickname of "square character", and structurally, Chinese characters are characterized by the following features:

The high density of information within a single character can be used to express the same thing in a much shorter length than in epigraphic characters to express the same message in a shorter space, so Chinese characters are very efficient to read.

A Chinese character is made up of more than 400 ideograms, such as gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which are combined like building blocks.

The meaning of an unknown character can be deduced from the composition of the roots as well as the configuration of the space. When new things emerge that are difficult to express in word form, new words can be synthesized using the principle of combining word roots. For example, the Chinese character for uranium is a new character created in modern times to represent a newly discovered chemical element.

The spatial configuration of the roots of Chinese characters has an impact on their meanings: for example, if the same character is "心跟亡", the left and right rows are "忙", and the top and bottom rows are "忘", which are arranged differently, leading to different meanings. The right side of the text has the character "乂", which means that the right hand (the left side of the hand indicates the left hand) holds something to do something to the left root of the character (the discovery of the Jinwen and Oracle Bone Script Archaeology), and if the right hand is holding something on top of it, it becomes "攵", and almost all of the characters that have this root are "攵". Almost all of the characters with this root are aggressive or use violence to achieve something, such as attack, defeat, knock, collect, disperse, govern, herd, edict, etc.

Editing the glyphs

(Calligraphy of Chinese characters): The strokes of the Chinese character "国" (state) are written in a variety of ways, i.e., there are different fonts; different fonts have different glyphs.

Written in regular fonts (e.g., Regular Script, Song Script, Clerical Script, Seal Script, etc.), Chinese characters are a kind of square character, with each character occupying the same amount of space. Chinese characters are composed of monograms, which are indivisible, such as "文", "中", etc., and composite characters, which are made up of a combination of basic components and account for more than 90% of all Chinese characters. Common combinations of composite characters include the following: top-down structure, such as "笑" and "尖"; left-right structure, such as "词" and "科 "; semi-enclosed structure, such as "the same", "tend"; full enclosing structure, such as "group", "return "; and composite structures such as "赢" and "斑". The basic components of a Chinese character include monograms, radicals and other unwritten components.

The smallest constituent unit of a Chinese character is the stroke.

When writing Chinese characters, the direction of the strokes and the order in which they appear, known as the "stroke order", is relatively fixed. The basic rules are: horizontal before vertical, apostrophe before stroke, top to bottom, left to right, outside before inside, outside before inside and then closed, center before both sides. The stroke order of Chinese characters may vary from one writing style to another.

Editing pronunciation

Chinese characters are the ****same writing system for many dialects, with each character representing a syllable. Mainland China now uses Mandarin as the standard reading, which is defined by a consonant, a rhyme and a tone, and actually uses more than 1,300 syllables. Due to the large number of Chinese characters, there are obvious homophones; at the same time, there are also multiple pronunciations of the same character, called polyphonic characters. This situation is common in all kinds of Chinese.

While Chinese characters are mainly ideographic, they are not devoid of phonetic components, the most common being names of people and places, followed by phonetic translations of foreign words, such as sofa. In addition, there are also some of the original epithets, such as (一命) "woo-hoo" and "ha-ha" laughter. But even so, there is still a certain element of ideograms, especially for names of people and places within the country. And even foreign names, there are certain ideological bottom line, such as "Bush" can never be translated into "immortal".

Since the Chinese characters themselves are not phonetic, there have been changes in the number and writing style of Chinese characters from the Han Dynasty to the 20th century, but it is impossible to tell the changes in pronunciation. It is necessary to conduct specialized research in order to speculate on their pronunciation in Upper and Middle Chinese. Some scholars have concluded that before the Han Dynasty, a Chinese character was pronounced as two syllables, secondary and primary, similar to today's Korean and Japanese.

The pronunciation of Chinese characters in Japanese is divided into "phonetic reading" and "training reading", and there are often many ways to read a character, because the reason comes from the pronunciation of Chinese characters imported into Japan at different times.

In Korean, the pronunciation of a character is more or less the same, and there is no training pronunciation.

Besides Japan, other countries that use Chinese characters also use multi-syllabic characters, such as ri (nautical mile), 嗧 (gallon), kilowatt etc. However, in mainland China, due to the official abolition of the use of the word has been basically not used, Taiwan is still in use, and the general public also understand the meaning of the word.

Editing the phonetic notation

The earliest methods of phonetic notation were the read-ruo method and the direct notation method. The method of reading if is to use the characters close to the sound of the pronunciation, Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi used this method of pronunciation, such as "埻, shooting environment is also, read if quasi". Direct injection method is to use another Chinese character to indicate the pronunciation of this Chinese character, such as "the woman for the said himself," the use of "the said said said Yue" to note.

The above two methods have inherent imperfections. Some characters do not have homophones or the homophones are too remote, which makes it difficult to play the role of phonetic notation, for example, "sock-note gills" and so on.

The inverse method was developed during the Wei and Jin dynasties, and is rumored to have been influenced by Sanskrit, which used pinyin. The pronunciation of Chinese characters could be marked by the inverse tangent method, i.e. by combining the consonant of the first character with the rhyme and tone of the second character, making it possible to combine the pronunciation of all Chinese characters. For example, "练，朗甸切" means that the pronunciation of "练" is formed by combining the consonant of "朗" with the rhyme and tone of "甸" (甸). The pronunciation of "练" is a combination of the consonant of "朗" and the rhyme and tone of "甸".

In recent times, the phonetic symbols in the form of Chinese characters (commonly known as BPM) and many Latin alphabets have been developed. Zhuyin symbols are still part of teaching in Taiwan, while Hanyu Pinyin is currently most widely used in mainland China.

Because Chinese characters are primarily concerned with their own meanings, they are weak in phonetic notation. This feature has made it possible to document thousands of years of literature without creating the same disparity in wording that exists in the Western world, where pinyin is used, but it has also made it difficult to extrapolate ancient sounds and rhythms. For example, the word "pang" is derived from the word "dragon", but in today's Beijing dialect the former is pronounced as "páng" and the latter as "lóng "The difference is explained by the phonetics. How to explain such differences is the subject of phonetics.

Editing Chinese Characters and Words

Characters are the smallest unit of Chinese composition.

Linguistic elements are the smallest units of ideograms in Chinese, and are analogous to the English terms "vocabulary" and "phrase". The vast majority of Chinese characters can form morphemes on their own, such as "I", which is analogous to the single-letter vocabulary words in English, such as "I". Most words in modern vernacular languages are composed of more than two Chinese characters, but unlike the relationship between words and letters in English, the meaning of morphemes tends to correlate with the meanings of the individual Chinese characters that make up the morphemes, thus simplifying memorization to a considerable extent. It simplifies memorization.

Words consist of morphemes and phrases formed by several morphemes.

The high efficiency of Chinese characters is reflected in the fact that hundreds of basic pictograms can be synthesized into tens of thousands of Chinese characters to represent all kinds of things in heaven and on earth, while hundreds of thousands of commonly used characters can be easily combined to form hundreds of thousands of words.

However, on the other hand, accurately mastering the collocations and usage of these hundreds of thousands of words has become a burden. The common Chinese vocabulary is about tens of thousands of words, and the total vocabulary is about one million words. Although it seems to be a bit prohibitive in terms of quantity, it is not out of reach to master it basically due to the ideographic nature of most Chinese character constructions. Therefore, in terms of vocabulary alone, it is not too difficult to learn; in contrast, the memorization intensity of mastering the same number of words in a foreign language is much greater.

From the point of view of ancient literature, the use of the original meaning of the word will be more precise and efficient than the over-reliance on words since the May 4 Vernacular Language Movement, for example, Mr. Zhu Bangfu mentioned the precise use of Chinese characters as a retroactive action.

Number of Chinese Characters

There is no exact number of Chinese characters, there are about 100,000 of them (91,251 Chinese characters in the Chinese Character Database of Beijing Guoan Consulting Equipment Company), and there are only a few thousands of Chinese characters used in daily life. According to statistics, 1,000 commonly used characters can cover about 92 percent of written materials, 2,000 characters can cover more than 98 percent, and at 3,000 characters it is already 99 percent, with little difference in statistics between simplified and traditional.

The total number of Chinese characters that have appeared in history is more than 80,000 (there are also claims of more than 60,000), most of which are variant and rare characters. The vast majority of these characters have either died out naturally or have been standardized, and generally appear only occasionally in personal names and place names, except in ancient languages. In addition, after the first batch of simplified characters, there were also a number of "second simplified characters", which have been abolished, but a few characters are still popular in the society.

The first count of the number of Chinese characters was made by Xu Shen in his Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Explaining Characters in Chinese) during the Han Dynasty, which *** included 9,353 characters. Subsequently, the Jade Chapter compiled by Gu Yowang during the Southern Dynasty was recorded as ****containing 16,917 characters, and the Daguangyikaiyuzhuan (Jade Chapter), which was revised on this basis, was said to contain 22,726 characters. Thereafter, the official revision of the Classical Pieces of the Song Dynasty (宋朝), which contained 31319 characters, and the official revision of the Jiyun (集韵), another book of the Song Dynasty (宋朝), which contained 53525 characters, used to be the book with the largest number of characters.

Some other dictionaries also contain more characters, such as the Kangxi Dictionary of the Qing Dynasty, which contains 47,035 characters; the Dahan and Dictionary of Japan, which contains 48,902 characters, with 1,062 appendices; the Chinese Dictionary of Taiwan, which contains 49,905 characters; and the Hanyu Dazhi Dictionary, which contains 54,678 characters.

The largest number of characters in the 20th century is the Zhonghua Zihai (Sea of Chinese Characters), which contains 85,000 characters.

In the 20th century, the largest number of characters was published in the Chinese Character Sea, with 85,000 characters.

The largest computer coding standard for Chinese characters is Taiwan's "National Standard" CNS11643, which currently (4.0)*** contains 76,067 Chinese characters in traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean***, but is not widely used, and is only used in a few environments, such as in the household administration system. The Big Five, which is commonly used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, contains 13,053 traditional Chinese characters. GB18030 is the latest Chinese character set of the People's Republic of China, and GBK contains 20,912 simplified, traditional, Japanese and Korean characters, while GB2312 contains 6,763 simplified Chinese characters in the early days. The Unicode Chinese, Japanese and Korean Unified Ideographs Basic Character Set (CJK UICS) contains 20,902 Chinese characters, with two extensions totaling more than 70,000 characters.

In the early days of the Chinese character system, the number of characters was insufficient, and many things were expressed in the form of tongyong, which made the expression of the characters more ambiguous. In order to improve the clarity of expression, the Chinese characters went through a phase of gradual complexity and a large increase in the number of characters. The excessive increase in the number of characters in turn led to difficulties in learning Chinese characters, and the limited meanings that could be represented by a single character led to many single Chinese meanings being represented by Chinese words, such as the common double-character words. Currently, the development of Chinese writing is more toward the creation of new words than new characters.

Editing Chinese character coding system

For the purpose of information exchange, a series of standards for Chinese character sets have been developed in various regions where Chinese characters are used.

The GB code ("GB" is the abbreviation for the National Standard of the People's Republic of China) is used in mainland China. GB2312 contains 6,763 Chinese characters, GBK contains 20,912 Chinese characters, and the latest GB18030 contains 27,533 Chinese characters.

BIG5 code. Includes 13053 characters. One- or two-byte code used in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Unicode is not well accepted by the Chinese government. The Chinese government requires software sold in mainland China to support the GB18030 encoding.

In the field of international communicationization and software design, the CJK encoding collects the set of Chinese characters in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.

Chinese characters with the most strokes in the edited section

The Chinese character for system noodle in use, biang, is the Chinese character with the most strokes, with 17 strokes in ***

Biangbiang noodle is a kind of noodle originating from Shaanxi, and is now also the brand name of a noodle restaurant, which is still using the character, but the dictionary of this character can't find out the way to write the character biang

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The Chinese character with the most strokes in modern Chinese is 齉nàng

meaning nasal congestion and unclear articulation. "Only" 36 strokes.