Chinese Characters

Chinese Character Secrets Among all kinds of writing systems on this world, the Chinese symbol characters have their own specific mythical value and artistic flavor, as they are totally different from the word spellings of Roman Alphabetical systems. Each Chinese symbol corresponds to a single syllable. Most Chinese words are polysyllabic and thus require two or more character joining together to express a full meaning in the form of phrases. Chinese symbol characters' formation do not consist of any letters or spelling rules. Each character occupies a more or less square area. Chinese written words are made up of multiple parts put together so as to maintain a uniform size and shape ?this is the case especially with characters written in the standard Chinese style. Due to this feature, people sometimes call Chinese words or characters "Fang Kuai Ji" (方塊字), which means "Square-Block Characters". But how can a square shaped Chinese character be formed? Well, it still has special rules to follow. Generally, all Chinese symbols can be divided into 6 categories in terms of the way they are formed. These 6 types of characters was categorized by a traditional Chinese theory framework called LiuShu (六書). The Six Types of Chinese Character Writings "Liushu" (六書),literally means "6 types of writings". It has not only classified Chinese symbol characters into 6 different groups but also generates 6 principles for the formation of each Chinese symbol. So based upon the way of formation, Chinese words were categorized into 6 types:   Pictographic Characters - Many people like to ask if Chinese symbol characters are real pictures or written words. It is an interesting question ... Read More   Associative Compounds - The symbol character of associative compounds is usually composed of two or more graphic elements ... Read More   Phone-semantic Compounds - Over 90% of Chinese symbols were Phone-semantic compounds. These characters were formed by linking two or more elements together. ... Read More   Simple indicatives (指事) - A simple indicative (sometimes called "ideograms" or simple ideogram) character is the one that is intended to express a relatively abstract idea by modifying an existing pictographic character ... Read More  Phonetic Loan Characters (假借) - Phonetic loan character is also called "borrowing character". As introduced earlier, many Chinese words share the same pronunciation ... Read More   Associate Transformative Character - Associate Transformative characters are sometimes are called "derived characters". According to the 6 principle theory ... Read More

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