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  2. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters [a] are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.Chinese characters have a documented history spanning over three millennia, representing one of the four independent inventions of writing accepted by scholars; of these, they comprise the only writing system continuously used since its invention.

  3. Chinese character classification - Wikipedia

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    A straightforward structural classification scheme may consist of three pure classes of semantographs, phonographs and signs —having only semantic, phonetic, and form components respectively, as well as classes corresponding to each combination of component types. [11] Of the 3500 characters that are frequently used in Standard Chinese, pure ...

  4. Chinese character forms - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character structures include: Single-component structure: The character is formed by a single primitive component, such as 口, 日 and 月. Left-right structure: The character is formed by a component on the left and another one on the right, such as 好, 部 and 件.

  5. Chinese character structures - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character structures (simplified Chinese: 汉字结构; traditional Chinese: 漢字結構; pinyin: hànzì jiégòu) are the patterns or rules in which the characters are formed by their writing units. [1] There are two aspects of Chinese character structures: The external structures are on the writing strokes, components and whole ...

  6. 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. Rather, the writing system is morphosyllabic: characters are one spoken syllable in length, but generally ...

  7. Chinese character orders - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character order, or Chinese character indexing, Chinese character collation and Chinese character sorting (simplified Chinese: 汉字排序; traditional Chinese: 漢字排序; pinyin: hànzì páixù), is the way in which a Chinese character set is sorted into a sequence for the convenience of information retrieval. [1]

  8. Chinese character components - Wikipedia

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    In Written Chinese, components (Chinese: 部件; pinyin: bùjiàn) are building blocks of characters, composed of strokes. [1] In most cases, a component consists of more than one stroke, and is smaller than the whole of the character. For example, the character 件 consists of two components: 亻 and 牛. These can be further decomposed: 亻 ...

  9. 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.