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Chinese characters are ideographical. Usually, one character represents one word or a morpheme (a unit for constructing a word), which means one character contains the combined information of sound (pronunciation), shape (what it looks like) and meaning.
In the Translate app, you can translate text from images on your phone. With some devices, you can also translate text you find through your camera. Important: The translation accuracy depends on the clarity of the text. Translation of small, unclear, or stylized text may not be accurate.
Skritter. Skritter is an elegant and enjoyable app for learning to read (and write!) Chinese characters. The Skritter Character Course, available in the app (subscription required), teaches you 150 individual characters including pictographs, ideographs, semantic compounds, and more.
Skritter is a very effective app for learning to read and write the most common Chinese characters.
Written Chinese is not based on an alphabet or syllabary. Most characters can be analyzed as compounds of smaller components, which may be assembled ing to several different principles. Characters and components may reflect aspects of meaning or pronunciation.
The earliest known examples of Chinese writing are oracle bone inscriptions made c. 1200 BC at Yin (near modern Anyang), the site of the final capital of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC).
The earliest writings in China were found on ox scapulae, tortoiseshells, and bronzes during the Shang dynasty. Dated from around 1400-1200 B.C.E, the inscriptions on bones and shells-called "oracle bones"-recorded divination used by the Shang royal house.
The first attested characters are oracle bone inscriptions made during the 13th century BCE in what is now Anyang, Henan, as part of divinations conducted by the Shang dynasty royal house. Character forms were originally highly pictographic in style, but evolved as writing spread across China.
This earliest Chinese script shows that in its earliest history, Chinese writing was based on pictures. The word for “cow” was clearly the picture of a cow's head; “to go” was written with the picture of a foot. However, a little reflection shows that it is impossible to have a fully pictorial system of writing.
Markings which some archaeologists have identified as examples of proto-writing first appeared in China in approximately 6600 BCE, evidence of which has been discovered at the Jiǎhú archaeological site in Henan, China. Pictograms have also been found in China dating from the 5th century BCE.
