A. Understanding the nature of
the 2 kinds of characters :
Earily Civilizations
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Everyone Started With
Ideographical Written Language
See following examples: Sun Moon   ... Star
Ideographical Letters -
The developing stages of a Chinese character :
Alphabetical Letters -
The developing stages of Roman Letters :
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Alphabetical Letters
Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Roman, Arabic, ... etc.
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Started out ideographically, but, ended up "alphabetically". |
Ideographic Letters Chinese
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About some 7,000 years ago, Chinese in the EAST
started her "written language" in the same fashion, IDEOGRAPH.
But, following the "same route" to develop out today's Chinese characters.
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Understanding the "simplified Chinese"
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One should not say which one is "superior".
In fact, they all started out "ideographically " in the beginning.
I. Alphabetical Letters
Modern & Ancient Chinese characters
(Ideographical ) ![](/blog/10key/Z4-NowAncient.gif) REASONING
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Egptian & Roman characters (Ideographical)
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Egptian & Roman characters (Ideographical)
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How "Roman Letters A B C ..." were developed out ?
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II. Ideographic Letters
7,000+ Years' development
Chinese Character
comes from a long long way back in history !These showed "HOW" :
China The Graceful
"Letters" of Chinese minorities
Two Origins of Letters