...Written Chinese (Chinese: 中文; pīnyīn: zhōngwén) comprises the written symbols used to represent spoken Chinese and the rules about how they are arranged and punctuated. These symbols are commonly known as Chinese characters (traditional/simplified Chinese: 漢字/汉字; pinyin: hànzì). Chinese characters do not constitute an alphabet or a compact syllabary. Rather, the writing system is roughly logosyllabic; that is, each character generally represents either a complete one-syllable word (see logogram) or a single-syllable part of a word. The characters themselves are often composed of parts that may represent physical objects, abstract notions, or pronunciation. Read full entry
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How are Chinese dialects There is only one way of
writing Chinese but there are
many dialects. How then would
one know if something is
written in a dialect other
than Mandarin?
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chinese dialects have their own special characters and their own grammar. if you write in the colloquial cantonese style the grammar will be a little different, but the characters will be totally different, the cantonese characters will be chosen for their sound, no meaning. |
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what are the similarities and i have to do a project for my
history class. and im not
allowed to use wikipedia or
anything thats associated with
it (aka has pedia in it) cause
my teacher wants us to cite
the page/work and she'll
deduct points if we have it.
can anyone PLEASE help. ive
been looking online and in
books for the longest and all
that comes up is how they
compare in general, not the
written chinese and japanese.
thanks so muchh (:
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Yahoo Answers is not a cite you can source either. Here's what you can do, go to wikipedia. A lot of times wikipedia has citations, use wikipedia's citations to get viable sources. As for the similarities and differences - Japanese has three writing systems - Hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Chinese has two writing systems - Simplified and traditional. Traditional is not used anymore except for certain places. Simplified is just the traditional form, but well, simpler. Katakana is generally only used for foreign words or names. Kanji means Chinese characters, because the characters were borrowed from Chinese traditional characters. Most kanji are the exact same as the Chinese traditional characters, but some have been simplified a little. EDIT: @saru: Chinese people do NOT use kanji. As I've already said, kanji is composed of traditional Chinese characters, which are no longer used in China. Simplified characters are used instead. Hong Kong and Taiwan are the only places that still use traditional characters. Also, in Chinese characters are called hanzi not kanji. Hanzi refers to both simplified and traditional characters and since the Japanese have made changes to some characters they borrowed, hanzi and kanji are not the same. |
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What are the written chinese I would like to know how the
words Father & daughter are
spelled or written in chinese.
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English - Pinyin (Mandarin phonetic) - Simplified Hanzi -Traditional Hanzi Father - fù qin - 父亲 - 父親 Daughter - nǔ ér - 女儿 - 女兒 On Pinyin tones (with charts) http://www.wku.edu/~shizhen.ga o/Chinese101/pinyin/tones.htm |
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