WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest/ ancient Chinese characters were called Hanzi. There are two main types of characters in ancient Chinese writing. These characters are: unit characters and compound characters. The unit characters comprise only one graphical element and cannot be divided into parts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Names of the Chinese Writing Systems Ancient Chinese writing on oracle bones is called Jiaguwen, according to AncientScripts, which describes the characters as pictographic. Dazhuan is the name of the script on Bronze. It may be the same as the Jiaguwen.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most linguists classify all of the variations of spoken Chinese as part of the Sino-Tibetan family and believe that there was an original language, called Proto-Sino-Tibetan, similar to Proto Indo-European, from which the Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman languages descended.

Detailed explanation-4: -Altogether there are over 50, 000 characters, though a comprehensive modern dictionary will rarely list over 20, 000 in use. An educated Chinese person will know about 8, 000 characters, but you will only need about 2-3, 000 to be able to read a newspaper.