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Du Fu's poem "渚清沙白鳥飛迴" is written in simplified Chinese characters as "渚清沙白鸟飞回", where "飞回" will inevitably make people misunderstand as "flying back". [8] In addition, some simplified characters are more controversial. For example, "罴" is a kind of bear.
Chinese word-segmented writing, or Chinese word-separated writing (simplified Chinese: 分词书写; traditional Chinese: 分詞書寫; pinyin: fēncí shūxiě), is a style of written Chinese where texts are written with spaces between words like written English. [1]
Morphemes are the minimal units of meaning in a language. [4] Chinese characters are morpheme characters, and the meanings of Chinese characters come from the morphemes they record. [5] Most Chinese characters represent only one morpheme, and in that case the meaning of the character is the meaning of the morpheme recorded by the character. For ...
Strokes (traditional Chinese: 筆劃; simplified Chinese: 笔画; pinyin: bǐhuà) are the smallest writing units of Chinese characters. When writing a Chinese character, the trace of a dot or a line left on the writing material (such as paper) from pen-down to pen-up is called a stroke. [42]
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 ...
Written Chinese is one of the oldest continuously used writing systems. [26] The earliest examples universally accepted as Chinese writing are the oracle bone inscriptions made during the reign of the Shang king Wu Ding (c. 1250 – c. 1192 BCE). These inscriptions were made primarily on ox scapulae and turtle shells in order to record the ...
A page from the Yiqiejing yinyi, the oldest extant Chinese dictionary of Buddhist technical terminology – Dunhuang manuscripts, c. 8th century. There are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dictionaries' (字典; zìdiǎn) list individual Chinese characters, and 'word dictionaries' (辞典; 辭典; cídiǎn) list words and phrases.
In written Chinese, sometimes a single simplified Chinese character is used for multiple traditional Chinese characters: gān (干; 干; 'trunk', 'stem', 'intervene') is the simplified form of two words gān (乾; 'dry', 'dried up', 'in vain') and gàn (幹; 'trunk', 'main body', 'do', 'work