Professional Documents
Culture Documents
and Scripts
Warming up
---What do you know about Chinese characters
Square Characters
formed of strokes
occupy the same spacing in printed paper
Ideograph(表意文字) & Pictograph
Rich in Senses
Basically Using Monosyllabic(单音节)
Characters
Chinese characters are the written symbol of
the Chinese language. Generally, a Chinese
character represents a syllable and carries a certain
meaning. For example, "水" (water), "人" (human), "狗"
(dog). However, not every character can be used
independently. In modern Chinese, some of the
characters must be used together with other
characters and form compound words, such as "習"
(study) in "學習" (learn + study) and "擊" (strike) in "
攻擊" (strike + attack). There are also some characters
that only have their meanings when grouped in words of
two or more characters, such as "葡萄" (grape), "蜻蜓"
(dragonfly).
Tonal
Formal
Balance
Geometric(几何图形)
Playful
Languages and Script of China
A threshold(门槛/开始) leading
human from ignorance to
civilization
王羲之
A Comparison between
Dongba hieroglyphs(东巴象形文字) and the
oracle bone scripts
Changle bone inscriptions
--- Origin of the oracle bone scripts
Spoken Chinese
The Chinese language: spoken by the
Hans, 94 % of China’s population.
Different, non-Han languages: spoken
by the remaining 6 % the so-called
minority peoples
Eight major dialects in Chinese
language
Wu dialect (spoken by 8.4 percent of
Han speakers),
Xiang (spoken by 5 percent),
Cantonese (5 percent),
Min (4.2 percent),
Hakka (4 percent),
Gan (2.4 percent)
Putonghua
The official or common language of the
PRC was based on the northern dialect.