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	Chinese character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Characters of this sort are composed of two parts: a pictograph, which suggests the general meaning of the character, and a phonetic part, which is derived from a character pronounced in the same way as the word the new character represents.
		All these characters have on the left a radical of three dots, which is a simplified pictograph for a water drop, indicating that the character has a semantic connection with water; the right-hand side in each case is a phonetic indicator.
		Because character simplifications were not officially sanctioned and generally a result of caoshu writing or idiosyncratic reductions, traditional, standard characters were mandatory in printed works, while the (unofficial) simplified characters would be used in everyday writing, or quick scribblings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_character (5444 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Chinese character
		The earliest Chinese characters are the Oracle Bone Script of the late Shang Dynasty and the Bronze Script (金文, jīnwén) of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
		Because character simplifications were not officially sanctioned and generally a result of caoshu writing or idiosyncratic reductions, traditional, standard characters were mandatory in printed, and especially official, works, while the (unofficial) simplified characters would be used in everyday writing, or quick scribblings.
		The large number of Chinese characters is due to their logographic nature — for every morpheme a glyph is required, and variant characters have at times developed for the same morpheme.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Chinese_character (5379 words)

	Chinese Characters @ 209.68.55.253 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		If you write only Chinese characters, you will love the phone's incredible recognition engine.
		Inspired by the possibility of a logical relation of those veins, he studied the animals of the world, the landscape of the earth, and the stars in the sky, and invented a symbolic system called zi (字) -- Chinese characters.
		The oldest Chinese inscriptions that are indisputably writing are the Oracle bone script (甲骨文/甲骨文 jiǎgǔwén, lit.
	209.68.55.253 /encyclopedia/Chinese_characters (4349 words)

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