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Chinese Characters 汉字 1. features a. a close but steady system that has an unidirectional development. b. a combination of meaning and phoneme, and the relation of the two elements above-mentioned is an evolutionary consequence instead of an arbitrary connection. c. they are firstly symbols of agricultural civilization integrated with human sentiment, motivation, and history. Evolutions of Chinese Characters: a historical vestige 2. Basic strokes of the Chinese characters 3. Balance in form of Chinese Characters 1) the balance of up and down 责zé 思sī 翁wēng 2) the balance of left and right 新xīn 行xíng 知zhī 3) a symmetric balance on both sides 懒lǎn 徼jiǎo 湖hú 4) an encircling balance 国guó 围wéi 母mǔ 5) half-circling balance 过guò 包bāo 安ān 4. Classification of Chinese Characters A. Phono-semantic compounds形声字 xíng shēng zì What are phono-semantic compounds? Phono-semantic compounds are also called semantic-phonetic compounds or pictophonetic compounds. These characters are composed of two parts: one element to indicate the general category of meaning and the other to suggest the pronunciation. Examples are 河 hé “river”, 湖 hú “lake”, 流 liú “stream”, 滑 huá slippery. All these characters have on the left a radical of three short strokes, which is a simplified pictograph for a river, indicating that the character has a semantic connection with water; the right-hand side in each case is a phonetic indicator. B. Ideogrammic compounds会意字 huì yì zì Ideogrammic compounds are also called associative compounds. These characters symbolically combine pictograms or ideograms to create a third character. For instance, combining 日 rì “sun” and 月 yuè “moon”, the two natural sources of light, makes 明 míng “bright”. Other commonly cited examples include the char