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According to this law, the national standard spoken and written language is Mandarin Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters. Background [ edit ] Throughout history, China, due to the large amount of different cultures and ethnicities in its borders, has been home to dozens of languages.
English Wikipedia has an article on: Table of General Standard Chinese Characters. Wikipedia . Chinese Wikisource has original text related to this appendix:
Written vernacular Chinese. Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout China. It is contrasted with Literary Chinese, which was the predominant written form of the language in imperial China until the early 20th century. [1]
Chinese characters 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.
Lệnh thư. A 1765 edict from the reign of Cảnh Hưng showing Chinese characters written in Lệnh thư. A Vietnamese calligraphic script known as Lệnh thư ( 令書) as its name suggest, it is mainly found in imperial edicts starting from the Revival Lê dynasty. The writing script is defined by its distinct sharp upward hooks.
Sichuanese Standard Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 四 川 普 通 话; traditional Chinese: 四 川 普 通 話; Sichuanese Pinyin: Si 4 cuan 1 Pu 3 tong 1 hua 4; pinyin: Sìchuān Pǔtōnghuà), or Szechwanese Standard Mandarin, also known as Pepper Salt Standard Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 椒 盐 普 通 话; traditional Chinese: 椒 鹽 普 通 話), is a variant of Standard Mandarin ...
The 14 simplified components in Chart 2 are never used alone as individual characters. They only serve as components. Example of derived simplification based on the component 𦥯, simplified to 𰃮 ( ), include: 學 → 学; 覺 → 觉; 黌 → 黉. Chart 1 collects 352 simplified characters that generally cannot be used as components.
