This blog explores the pictography of Chinese characters, you can see what the original pictography of characters and the evolution of the characters in more than 3000+ years.
Let's see an example, original character for Water is
The left is the oldest shell bone script, which is like a river with water drops. The middle one is the small seal script after shell bone script, which is like the water flow. The right one is the clerical script, which is still popular but the not pictography as the old ones.
It is easy to understand and remember the picture-alike shell bone script and small seal script. However, the current standard song typeface you see in the Chinese learning books is
水
You can't see anything like water anymore, you have to memorize by meaningless strokes. But if you were told how it has evolved from the old character above, then you can see the relationship between the two: the drops become strokes on the sides, the middle curve becomes straight line and a hook. everything is meaningful, it is easy to understand and remember both.
Let's see another example, Moon
Let's see another example, Moon
We see the evolution, and connections of the character from Shell bone script to small seal script to clerical script.
You can't be a fluent Chinese speaker by learning this series but you will find to be fun to learn Chinese this way. It is also a good starting step for those who want to be a fluent Chinese speaker,
In order to let you easy to find the characters your interested, I created an index below for you to look up. After you find the character you want to know, get its post number, then you could find its link on the right side of every page, click it to read the post you are interested. There are year links for the posts in a specific year. If you can't find the post number in a list of a year, click another year's link to see if it is in that year list. The posts are listed in the order of the numbers, it is easy to find the post link.
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Index of Amazing Chinese Characters
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