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  2. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    There are also special symbols in Chinese arts, such as the qilin, and the Chinese dragon. [1] According to Chinese beliefs, being surrounding by objects which are decorated with such auspicious symbols and motifs was and continues to be believed to increase the likelihood that those wishes would be fulfilled even in present-day. [2]

  3. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  4. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    The list also offers a table of correspondences between 2,546 Simplified Chinese characters and 2,574 Traditional Chinese characters, along with other selected variant forms. This table replaced all previous related standards, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes for Simplified Chinese in China. The Table ...

  5. Written Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary .

  6. Chinese character meanings - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters are morpheme characters, and the meanings of Chinese characters come from the morphemes they record. [5] Most Chinese characters only represent one morpheme, and the meaning of the character is the meaning of the morpheme recorded by the character. For example: 猫: māo, cat, the name of a domestic animal that can catch mice.

  7. Traditional Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages. In Taiwan , the set of traditional characters is regulated by the Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters .

  8. Simplified Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.Their mass standardization during the 20th century was part of an initiative by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote literacy, and their use in ordinary circumstances on the mainland has been encouraged by the Chinese ...

  9. List of hexagrams of the I Ching - Wikipedia

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    Often called "Small Exceeding", "preponderance of the small" and "small surpassing", but literal translation of 小過 is: small mistake, slightly too much. Its inner (lower) trigram is ☶ (艮 gèn) bound = mountain, and its outer (upper) trigram is ☳ (震 zhèn) shake = thunder.