Cang Jie, who is believed to have invented Chinese characters, used to work as a history official under the Yellow Emperor in ancient China. It is said that the inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells were also invented by him. He has been taken as a legendary figure in Chinese history and culture.

Read the third to fourth paragraph to know other

types of Chinese characters.

example

types of words

formation

pictographs

(象形字)

ideographs

(会意字)

pictophonetic

(形声字)

indicatives

(指示字)

function

Use different shapes or drawings

represent different objects

combine two or more characters together

express an idea

directions and

numbers

combine one part indicating meaning and the other suggesting pronunciation

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