Chinese Symbols: Pictures or Letters?
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Description: Examples of some of the pictographic characters from the early stage of the development of Chinese writing.
Chinese Symbols - Pictures or Letters? Chinese Symbols - Pictures or Letters? Pictographic symbols in Chinese writing - Writing represents spoken language. Spoken language consists of sounds, while writing is a string of symbols representing those sounds. In Chinese, each symbol stands for an entire word, unlike in alphabetic scripts where a sequence of individual letters signifies the word. This means that, more or less, every word in the Chinese language is written with a different symbol.
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| Page title: | Chinese Symbols - Pictures or Letters? |
| Keywords: | chinese, chinese symbols, writing, pictograph, letter, alphabet |
| Description: | Are Chinese symbols letters of an alphabet or are they images depicting objects? |
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