The sinogrammes , or Chinese characters, are the characters of the logographic writing Chinese E.

Historical definition of the term

The term was invented by the pr. Delphine Weulersse and Nicolas Lyssenko, of the Université of Paris {{VII}}, starting from the roots “sino-” (relating to China) and “- gram” (relating to the writing).

Contrary to a current generally accepted idea in Occident, the sinogrammes all are not of the Idéogramme S, even less of the Hiéroglyphe S or the drawings.

“Sinogramme” corresponds to Chinese 漢字/汉字 hànzì (to pronounce //), “characters of writing of Hàn”.

The tradition wants that the Chinese characters were invented by 倉頡/仓颉 Cang Jie (~2650). Its compositions were founded on the observation of nature, this is why it was said that it had two pairs of eyes. But it is most probably about a legend. Another tradition makes go up the invention of the characters with 伏羲 Fuxi, legendary the first emperor.

Codes ISO 15924 of representation of the sinographic written forms

• Hani - sinographic writing (all not distinguished alternatives)
• Hans - sinographic writing (Chinese alternative hànzì simplified)
• Hant - sinographic writing (Chinese alternative hànzì traditional)

See too

Internal bonds

• Chinese Languages, Mandarin, Japanese;
• writing;
• Dictionary of characters of Kangxi;
• romanisation, Bopomofo and Pinyin;
• Coding of the Chinese characters;
• Project Unihan;
• Transliteration in Chinese characters.

Graphic resources on Wikimedia Commons

• Commons:Sinogrammes
• Commons:Category: CJK_stroke_order/Characters
• Commons:CJK_stroke_order_project
• Commons:Category: Chinese_stroke_order_in_animated_GIF

External bonds

• unification '' han '';

• writings CJC for Unicode and the Cyberbit cast iron for the tests unicode (Windows).
• many sinogrammes in the form of animations GIF
• Genealogy of the sinogrammes according to the 说文解字 Shuōwén Jiězì of 許慎/许慎 Xu Shen.
• Unihan Database of the representation of the sinogrammes in Unicode and other codings.

Simple: Chinese character Zh-classical: 漢字 Zh-min-nan: Hàn-jī Zh-yue: 漢字

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