Chinese Writings

Chinese Writing Secrets

Do you know that there are two versions of Chinese symbol writing used by Chinese today.

One is the traditional version called "繁體字" (The Complex Character), The other is the new version called "简体字" (The Simplified Character).

But why should Chinese symbol writing be divided into two versions? That is a long-long story ...

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How to write a word in Chinese

Among all kinds of writing systems on this world, the Chinese symbol character has its unique features, as it is totally different from the word spelling of Roman Alphabetical systems.

Chinese symbol writings do not follow any spelling rules and each of Chinese symbol characters are made up of multiple parts.

These parts could be radicals and also could be words of different meanings. As shown below, we have listed a little portion of these symbol radicals for you. They are used so often in Chinese writing so they are the basic elements of the formation of many Chinese symbol characters.

To write a Chinese word simply is actually the task to put together all these parts through a step by step process. Now let's take "Chinese symbol for Forever" - " 永as an example to show you how to write a Chinese word in a standard Chinese style.

Each Chinese symbol character or word corresponds to a single syllable. Most Chinese written words are polysyllabic and thus require two or more characters joining together to express a full meaning in the form of phrases.