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The seal script is the formal system of character forms that evolved in the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty ( c. 771 – 256 BC), and later imposed as the standard across the country following Qin's wars of unification.
There are two standards for writing Chinese characters: simplified and traditional. Simplified characters (简体字 jiǎntǐzì) are currently used in Mainland China, Singapore, and Malaysia. Traditional characters (繁體字 fántǐzì) are used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. At WashU, classes are taught using simplified characters.
Structure. 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.
Here are the essential stroke order rules for writing simplified Chinese characters: Top to bottom. Left to right. First horizontal, then vertical. First right-to-left diagonals, then left-to-right diagonals. Center comes first in vertically symmetrical characters. Move from outside to inside and close frames last.
Chinese writing is logographic, that is, every symbol either represents a word or a minimal unit of meaning.
Although Chinese characters are square-shaped, the structures of characters are not all the same. The structures include single-element characters; top-bottom structure; left-right structure; left-middle- right; three quarters/one quarter division; half-enclosed; fully-enclosed, etc.
There are eight basic rules of stroke order in writing a Chinese character, which apply only generally and are sometimes violated: Horizontal strokes are written before vertical ones. Left-falling strokes are written before right-falling ones. Characters are written from top to bottom.
There are two different forms of written Chinese: Traditional and Simplified. Traditional Chinese writing came first and it is a more complicated system. It is the primary writing system that is used in Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong. Simplified Chinese is more commonly used in mainland China.
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.
The first ancient Chinese script was called oracle-bone script or jiagu wenzi (China's oldest script).
