history chinese language

Question 1

beginning of chinese characters?

Answer 1

• 5000 years ago
• time of yellow emperor
• cang jie made simple pics

Question 2

later

Answer 2

• han dynasty
• 30-124 AD
• Xu Shen made
• pictographs

Question 3

examples

Answer 3

Question 4

6 ways of making chinese pictographs?

Answer 4

1. picto graphs
2. ideo graphs
3. picto phonic
4. associative compounds
5. transfer
6. phonetic loan

Question 5

1. picto graphs

Answer 5

Question 6

2. Ideo graphs

Answer 6

Question 7

3. picto phonic

Answer 7

Question 8

4. associative compounds

Answer 8

Question 9

5. transfer

Answer 9

Question 10

6. phonetic loan

Answer 10

Question 11

brush stroke order

Answer 11

1. horizontal (bf)
2. left (bf)
3. left curve (bf)
4. top to bottom
5. outside (bf)
6. left then top and right, then inside, then bottom (box)
7. middle then left (br)