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Apr 28, 2014 · English translation of Qiu Xigui’s authoritative work (Wenzixue gaoyao [文字学概要], Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan, 1988), a comprehensive overview of the Chinese writing system, including its origins, evolution, and structure. The book provides a detailed analysis of the types of characters and contrasts traditional understandings with knowledge derived from recent archaeological finds.
The Chinese writing system is logographic, with each character representing a word or part of a word, rather than sounds. It has a history extending back to the second millennium BCE, originating from pictographs on oracle bones during the Shang dynasty. Key components of Chinese characters are radicals and strokes, with around 214 radicals ...
Liùshū, or “The Six Principles” theory of the Chinese script is a system for analyzing the structure of Chinese characters. There are several versions of this system, the most well-known being the one Xǔ Shèn [許慎] espoused in his great work Shuōwén Jiězì [說文解字] which was published in 100 CE.
Jul 8, 2019 · In the 1920s and 1930s, many Chinese intellectuals viewed the script as a serious problem in China's attempt to become a part of the modern world. It was portrayed as cumbersome, difficult to learn and out of date. As a result, many advocated the outright abandonment of the traditional script in favor of an alphabetic system.
May 30, 2018 · Since antiquity, no other text has enjoyed a presence quite like The Book of Songs – in one critic’s words, it is “the classic of the human heart and the human mind.”It is the first poetic ...
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Writing systems in the world can be differentiated along two dimensions. First is the size of the speech segments that are represented by the basic graphic units, and second is whether the graphic units encode speech sound only, or both speech sound and meaning. Following DeFrancis (1989:54), I use the term grapheme to refer to the basic ...
