目前分類:Things you need to know about Chinese characters (7)
- Apr 06 Mon 2015 22:36
Something you need to know about learning Chinese-Radical 木
- Apr 06 Mon 2015 22:34
Something you need to know about learning Chinese-Radical 草
- Apr 06 Mon 2015 22:28
Something you need to know about learning Chinese-Radical : 竹,
- Apr 06 Mon 2015 22:20
Something you need to know about learning Chinese-Radical :食, 米
- Apr 06 Mon 2015 22:09
Something you need to know about learning Chinese- Radical 肉, 火
- Apr 01 Wed 2015 00:16
Something you need to know about learning Chinese -Radical: 水
- Apr 01 Wed 2015 00:04
Something you need to know about learning Chinese (1)
漢字 Chinese Characters
Principles of formation
Chinese characters represent words of the language using several strategies. A small number of characters, including some of the most commonly used, were originally pictograms, which depicted the objects denoted, or simple ideograms, in which meaning was expressed iconically. Some other words were expressed by compound ideograms, but the vast majority were written using the rebus principle, in which a character for a similarly sounding word was either simply borrowed or (more commonly) extended with a disambiguating semantic marker to form a phono-semantic compound character.