What are the characteristics of Chinese characters?

It has become an art-calligraphy art, and the calligraphy art of Chinese characters can't be compared with any other words. The following ancient calligraphy works have become priceless. There are many famous works, such as Preface to Lanting, Monument to Shengde of Shence Army, Mysterious Pagoda Monument, and Sacrifice to My Nephew.

2. High awareness

The field of vision of human eyes is always a surface, not a line, so linear arrangement is difficult to identify; Form a square at a glance. Pinyin text = linear text; Chinese character = box symbol. Chinese characters are more efficient than pinyin characters in reading.

3. Image, intuition and expressiveness

Chinese characters are hieroglyphics, and their distinctive features are closely related in form and meaning, and their intuitive meaning is obvious. The ideographic nature of Chinese characters makes it the most informative character in the world, so it is easy to identify and associate, which also brings great convenience to speed up reading.

Extended data:

Chinese characters (pinyin: hàn zì, phonetic notation: ㄢˋˋ), also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters and square characters, belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. Chinese characters are written Chinese characters and borrowed from Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other languages. They are widely used in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, and they are also the only highly developed ideographic characters that are still widely used in the world.

Chinese characters in a broad sense refer to characters from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Dazhuan, Jinwen, Xiewen and Xiaozhuan to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. In a narrow sense, it refers to Chinese characters with block letters as the standard writing method, which is also a modern Chinese character widely used today. Chinese characters were invented and improved by ancient Han ancestors. At present, the exact history can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Zhang Wen and Jin Wen, about 65438 BC+0300 BC Shang Dynasty. Then it went to the seal script of Qin Dynasty, developed into the official script of Han Dynasty, and became the standard of handwritten font used today in Tang Dynasty-block letters.

References:

Chinese Characters-Baidu Encyclopedia