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Chinese Character Structures
Chinese character structures () are the patterns or rules in which the characters are formed by their writing units. There are two aspects of Chinese character structures: The ''external structures'' are on the writing strokes, components and whole characters as well as their structural relations on the pure dimension of character forms. The ''internal structures'' studies the relationship between the forms, sounds and meanings of Chinese characters. External structures ''Chinese character external structure'' is on how the writing units are combined level by level into a complete character. There are three levels of structural units of Chinese characters: ''strokes'', ''components'', and ''whole characters''. For example, character (character) is composed of two components, each of which is composed of three stokes: = 宀(㇔㇔㇇) + 子(㇇㇚㇐). Strokes ''Strokes'' () are the smallest building units of Chinese characters. When writing a Chinese character, the trace o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuowen Jiezi
''Shuowen Jiezi'' () is an ancient Chinese dictionary from the Han dynasty. Although not the first comprehensive Chinese character dictionary (the '' Erya'' predates it), it was the first to analyze the structure of the characters and to give the rationale behind them, as well as the first to use the principle of organization by sections with shared components called radicals (''bùshǒu'' 部首, lit. "section headers"). Circumstances of compilation Xu Shen, a Han Dynasty scholar of the Five Classics, compiled the ''Shuowen Jiezi''. He finished editing it in 100 CE, but due to an unfavorable imperial attitude towards scholarship, he waited until 121 CE before having his son Xǔ Chōng present it to Emperor An of Han along with a memorial. In analyzing the structure of characters and defining the words represented by them, Xu Shen strove to disambiguate the meaning of the pre-Han Classics, so as to render their usage by government unquestioned and bring about order, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Shen
Xu Shen ( CE) was a Chinese calligrapher, philologist, politician, and writer of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-189). He was born in the Zhaoling district of Run'an prefecture (today known as Luohe in Henan Province). During his own lifetime, Xu was recognized as a preeminent scholar of the Five Classics. He was the author of '' Shuowen Jiezi'',''Daijisen'' entry "Xu Shen" (''Kyo Shin'' in Japanese). Shogakukan.'' Kanjigen'' entry "Xu Shen" (''Kyo Shin'' in Japanese). Gakken, 2006. which was the first comprehensive dictionary of Chinese characters, as well as the first to organize entries by radical. This work continues to provide scholars with information on the development and historical usage of Chinese characters. Xu Shen completed his first draft in 100 CE but, waited until 121 CE before having his son present the work to the Emperor An of Han. Life Xu was a student of the scholar-official Jia Kui (30-101). Under Jia, he established himself as a master i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pianpang
Pianpangs ( zh, c=偏旁, p=piānpáng, l=side side) are components in Chinese character internal structures. A compound character is normally divided into two ''pianpangs'' according to their relationship in sounds and meanings. Originally, the left side component of the character was called ''pian'', and the right side ''pang''. Nowadays, it is customary to refer to the left and right, upper and lower, outer and inner parts of a compound characters as ''pianpangs''. Radicals () are indexing components of Chinese characters, and are usually ''pianpangs'' representing the meanings of the characters. Classification There are three categories of ''pianpangs'' in modern Chinese characters: # A component related to (or representing) the meaning of the character is a ''semantic pianpang'' (形旁, 義旁 or 意符). For example: component "扌" (hand) in characters "推" (push) and "拉" (pull), and "心" (heart) in "思" (think) and "忠" (loyal). # A component related to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Vietnamese
Vietnamese ( vi, tiếng Việt, links=no) is an Austroasiatic language originating from Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by over 70 million people, several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. It is the native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second language or first language for other ethnic groups in Vietnam. As a result of emigration, Vietnamese speakers are also found in other parts of Southeast Asia, East Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Vietnamese has also been officially recognized as a minority language in the Czech Republic. Like many other languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Vietnamese is an analytic language with phonemic tone. It has head-initial directionality, with subject–verb–object order and modifiers following the words they modify. It also uses noun classifiers. Its vocabulary has had significant influence from Chinese and Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Character Components
In Written Chinese, components () are building blocks of characters, composed of strokes. In most cases, a component consists of more than one stroke, and is smaller than the whole of the character. For example, the character consists of two components: and . These can be further decomposed: can be analyzed as the sequence of strokes , and as the sequence . There are two methods for Chinese character component analysis, ''hierarchical dividing'' and ''plane dividing''. Hierarchical dividing separates layer by layer from larger to smaller components, and finally gets the primitive components. Plane dividing separates out the primitive components at one time. The structure of a Chinese character is the pattern or rule in which the character is formed by its (first level) components. Chinese character structures include single-component structure, left-right structure, up-down structure and surrounding structure. Analysis Chinese characters may be analyzed in terms of small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Whole Characters
A Chinese whole character, or whole Chinese character (Pinyin: hànzì zhěngzì; Traditional Chinese: 漢字整字; Simplified Chinese: 汉字整字), is a complete Chinese character. It lies at the final level of the stroke-component-character Chinese character composition. According to their structures, Chinese characters can be divided into ''undecomposable characters'' (独体字) and ''decomposable characters'' (合体字). An undecomposable character is formed by one primitive component and is also called a single-component character, a decomposable character can be decomposed into two or more components and is also called a multi-component character. Undecomposable characters Definition An undecomposable character is directly formed by strokes, can not be decomposed into smaller components, though may be a component of a decomposable character. For example, 人 is an undecomposable characters formed by strokes ㇓ and ㇏, and is used to form character 丛. Lists of un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Character Forms
Chinese character forms () are the shapes and structures of Chinese characters. They are the physical carriers of written Chinese. Modern Chinese characters appear in the form of square blocks. There are two methods to analyze the forms of Chinese characters, ''source tracing analysis'' () and ''current status analysis'' (, ). Source tracing analysis is also called the method of character creation (). It takes the form of a character when it was created as the object of analysis. Current status (or current situation) analysis takes the current regular script standard form (, ) as the object. As an academic subject, ''modern Chinese characters'' pay more attention to current status analysis. Current status analysis studies how the writing units are combined level by level into a complete Chinese character. There are three levels of structural units of Chinese characters: ''strokes'' (), ''components'' (), and ''whole characters'' (). For example, character (character) is composed of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Character Internal Structures
Chinese character forms studies the external structure of Chinese characters, i.e. strokes, components, and whole characters, and their structural relations to the pure dimension of forms or appearances. The internal structure of Chinese characters (Pinyin: hànzì nèibù jiégòu; Traditional Chinese: 漢字的內部結構; Simplified Chinese: 汉字内部结构) studies the relationship between the forms, sounds, and meanings of the characters, thereby explaining the rationale for character formation. In the analysis of internal structures, Chinese characters are decomposed into internal structural components in relation to the sound and meaning of the character. Internal structural components The character-building units obtained by analyzing the external structure of Chinese characters are external structural components. In internal structures, Chinese characters are analyzed according to the rationale of character formation, and the basic unit of character formation is inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
