{"id":1048,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T08:03:38","slug":"chinese-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese Characters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u66c6 (Li = calendar)
\n\u866c (Qiu = dragon)
\n\u9f99 (Long = dragon)
\n\u94b1 (Qian = money)
\n\u94b1\u5e01\u00a0 (Qianbi = coin)
\n\u4e7e (Gan = male, strong)
\n(\u5f18 (Hong = great, liberal)
\n\u5929\u5b50(Ti\u0101nz\u01d0= Son of Heaven)<\/span><\/a>
\n\u767d\u9f99 (Bai long = white dragon)
\n\u91d1\u9f99 (Jinlong = golden dragon)
\n\u9b54\u9b3c (Mogui = demonic dragon)
\n\u94b1\u9f99 (Qianlong = money dragon)
\n\u7687 (Huang = Emperor, Sovereign)
\n\u5e1d (Di = Emperor, god, imperialism)
\n\u7687\u5e1d (Huangdi = Emperor, Sovereign)
\n\u5929\u547d (Tianming = Mandate of Heaven)<\/span><\/a>
\n\u7d14\u7687\u5e1d (Emperor Chun = Emperor pure)
\n\u7d14 (Chun = pure, genuine, skillful, practice)
\n\u4e94\u722a\u9f99 \u00a0 (Wu Zhao long = 5 clawed dragon)
\n\u5e1d\u738b\u9f99 (Diwanglong = Imperial King dragon)
\n\u9b54\u738b (Mowang = Demonic King = Beelzebub)
\n\u7687\u5e1d\u9000\u4f11 (Huangdi tuixiu = Emperor Emeritus)
\n\u4e7e\u9686\u5e1d (Qianlong Emperor), given name at birth Hongli (\u5f18\u66c6)
\n\u9686 (Long = grand, prosperous, thrive, swell, eminent, intense)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Living as emperor in the cosmic order<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Chinese characters, also known as Hanzi (\u6f22\u5b57) are one of the earliest forms of written language in the world, dating back 5.000 years. Nearly 1\/4 of the world\u2019s population still use Chinese characters today. As an art form, Chinese calligraphy remains an integral aspect of Chinese culture.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese characters are logograms\/logographies. The term ‘logogram’ was derived from Greek logos “word, discourse, reason”. The term ‘logo’ was derived from the term ‘logogram’, not the other way round. Logograms represent words or compounds of words. All the world\u2019s oldest writing systems, such as those used in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and China, use a logographic system.<\/span><\/p>\n

The earliest Chinese characters were created using pictures or pictographs, which were originally inscribed on clay pottery and bone and then later on bronze and other metals. These characters eventually developed into the calligraphic style that we see in the modern day \u2018rhombus-shape\u2019 characters. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some characters are pictograms where the character is a picture depicting the item. Others are ideograms representing an abstract concept (such as \u2018up\u2019 and \u2018down\u2019). Then there are characters that combine two or more pictograms and ideograms to create a new meaning, and characters that combine elements to give both the meaning and sound.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pictographic characters comprise only about 4% of the characters. The vast majority are pictophonetic characters consisting of a \u201cradical,\u201d indicating the meaning and a phonetic component for the original sound, which may be different from modern pronunciation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alphabets and syllabaries are distinct from logographies in that they use individual written characters to represent sounds directly. Such characters are called phonograms in linguistics. Unlike logograms, phonograms do not have any inherent meaning. Writing language in this way is called phonemic writing or orthographic writing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are 47,035 Chinese characters in the Kangxi Dictionary (\u5eb7\u7199\u5b57\u5178), the standard national dictionary developed during the 18th and 19th centuries, but the precise quantity of Chinese characters is a mystery; numerous, rare variants have accumulated throughout history. Studies from China have shown that 90% of Chinese newspapers and magazines tend to use 3,500 basic characters.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Evolution of Chinese Characters<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese characters have evolved over several thousands of years to include many different styles, or scripts. The main forms are: Oracle Bone Inscriptions (Jia Gu Wen \u7532\u9aa8\u6587), Bronze Inscriptions, (Jin Wen \u91d1\u6587), Small Seal Characters (Xiao Zhuan \u00e5\u00b0\u008f\u00e7\u00af\u2020), Official Script (Xiao Zhuan \u5c0f\u7bc6), Regular Script (Kai Shu \u6977\u66f8), Cursive Writing or Grass Stroke Characters (Cao Shu \u8349\u66f8), and Freehand Cursive (Xing Shu \u884c\u66f8).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Chinese script has been traditionally written from top to bottom and from right to left. However, left-to-right horizontal writing has been used more frequently in recent years in digital media and on the internet. This change is likely due to the influence of Western languages and technology.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The evolution of the Chinese character for dragon (long \u9f8d) is illustrated here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Mongolian script is also written vertically, but columns move from left to right:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Manchu characters are also written from top to bottom, and columns proceed from left to right:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In Tibetan script, syllables are written from left to right:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n“Om-mani-padme-hum<\/span><\/a>” mantra text<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Runic scripts<\/span><\/a> are a series of “left-to-right” alphabets, like the Elder Futhark<\/span><\/a>, used by the Germanic peoples to write their languages before adopting the Latin alphabet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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yew-tree character<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cosmic characters are expressed vertically:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Chinese Characters \u66c6 (Li = calendar) \u866c (Qiu = dragon) \u9f99 (Long = dragon) \u94b1 (Qian = money) \u94b1\u5e01\u00a0 (Qianbi = coin) \u4e7e (Gan = male, strong) (\u5f18 (Hong = great, liberal) \u5929\u5b50(Ti\u0101nz\u01d0= Son of Heaven) \u767d\u9f99 (Bai long = white dragon) \u91d1\u9f99 (Jinlong = golden dragon) \u9b54\u9b3c (Mogui = demonic dragon) \u94b1\u9f99 (Qianlong =…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}