of symbols have been found at several archeological sites dating to the Neolithic period in what is now China. The symbols are either pictorial in nature...

comparatively small library of symbols. This compelled innovations that allowed for symbols to directly encode spoken language. In each historical case, this...

Vinča symbols or Vinča–Turdaș signs, Old European script, Danube script (among other names) are a set of untranslated symbols found on Neolithic era artifacts...

prehistoric artifacts found in Jiahu, a neolithic Peiligang culture site found in Henan, China, and excavated in 1989. The Jiahu symbols are dated to around 6000 BC...

pronunciation: [kaɲdʑi]) are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major...

Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages. In Taiwan, the set of traditional characters...

phonetic symbols. However, the Taiwan-oriented schools are starting to teach simplified Chinese and pinyin to offer a more well-rounded education. In the Philippines...

emerged from earlier traditions of symbol systems in the early Neolithic, as early as the 7th millennium BC in China and southeastern Europe. They used...

prominent Chinese writer, in the 1940s. It assigned thirty base shapes or strokes to different keys and adopted a new way of categorizing Chinese characters...

1961 Edition "In 1981 the jōyō kanji list superseded the old tōyō kanji list — the list of Chinese characters which was announced in November 1946 and...

(Chinese: 草書, cǎoshū; Japanese: 草書体, sōshotai; Korean: 초서, choseo; Vietnamese: thảo thư), often referred to as grass script, is a script style used in...

Chinese characters may have several variant forms—visually distinct glyphs that represent the same underlying meaning and pronunciation. Variants of a...

A Chinese radical (Chinese: 部首; pinyin: bùshǒu; lit. 'section header') or indexing component is a graphical component of a Chinese character under which...

samples. While various symbols inscribed on pieces of pottery, jade, and bone have been found at Neolithic sites across China, there is no clear evidence...

(simplified Chinese: 简体字表; traditional Chinese: 簡體字表; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì biǎo), which differed from the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme of the China. After...

written Chinese. It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to...

special symbols to indicate indigenous Korean morphemes, verb endings and other grammatical markers that were different in Korean from Chinese. This made...

Chinese characters are generally logograms, but can be further categorised based on the manner of their creation or derivation. Some characters may be...

used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946. Some of the new forms found in shinjitai are also found in simplified Chinese characters...

from China. Like most Chinese characters, they are primarily formed by combining existing characters - though using combinations that are not used in Chinese...

commonly used Chinese characters in Chinese. It was created in 1988 in the People's Republic of China. In 2013, the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters...

texts written in Classical Chinese into understandable Korean. It was used chiefly during the Joseon dynasty, when readings of the Chinese classics were...

Written Chinese is a writing system that uses Chinese characters and other symbols to represent the Chinese languages. Chinese characters do not directly...

Chinese jade refers to the jade mined or carved in China from the Neolithic onward. It is the primary hardstone of Chinese sculpture. Although deep and...

Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe...

[ha(ː)ntɕ͈a]), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters (Chinese: 漢字; pinyin: hànzì) used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early...

punctuation marks, see List of Japanese typographic symbols. Instead of underlines or cursive, Chinese, Japanese and Korean use emphasis marks. Ruby characters...

display Chinese characters, which are used in the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. They are currently the most common style of type in print for...

Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, are writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes...

developed organically over the history of Chinese script. The traditional model of scripts appearing suddenly in a well-defined order has been discredited...