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What were the first examples of Chinese writing?
Pictographs and Ideographs
When were ideographs invented?
Ideographs have been used for thousands of years in various cultures, with ancient examples found in civilizations like Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China. The specific origins or "invention" of ideographs may vary depending on the culture, but they have played a significant role in written communication throughout history.
What system forms the basis for the writing in East Asia?
Ideographs
What is the difference between Chinese pictographs and ideographs?
Pictographs resemble what they mean. For example, a pictograph of "Tiger" would be more or less recognizable as the image of a tiger crudely drawn. Ideographs do not resemble what they mean. However, Ideographs can resemble one another (i.e. the ideograph of "Tiger" may resemble the ideograph of "Lion", but neither would resemble a Tiger or Lion crudely drawn). Ideographs can also steal phonetic pieces (i.e. The ideograph for "Shipping" may have the ideograph for "ping" in it since "ping" is phonetically part of "Shipping"). Finally Ideographs can be composed of multiple minor ideographs working in concert (i.e. "Archer" may be written as combination of "bow" and "man" since the Archer is man who uses a bow). None of the combination-elements are present in pictographs.
What are ideographs?
Ideographs are written characters or symbols that represent abstract ideas or concepts rather than specific words. They are commonly used in logographic writing systems such as Chinese characters. Ideographs convey meaning through visual representation rather than phonetic sound.
What is a Blissymbol?
A Blissymbol is any of the ideographs in the Blissymbols language - a group of symbolic characters which can be used to assist people who have difficulties in communicating.
Which people use ideographs?
Chinese (and every country that uses Kanji or Hanzi taken from Chinese) Ancient Egypt used them, better known as hieroglyphs in that case. Sumerian called theirs Cuneiform. Even the English language contains some, the Arabic numerals (1,2,3,4,5,etc.) are ideographs and they have spread almost worldwide!
How do pictographs differ from ideographs?
Pictographs are graphic symbols making pictures which resemble what they signify. Ideographs are graphic symbol that represent an idea or concept independent of any particular language. For instance if you look at the international road sign for no overtaking, the two cars side by side would be Pictograph while the read circle and colouring of the sign is the Ideograph.
How did the writing start?
The first record of Chinese writing is on oracle bones from the Shang dynasty. Written Chinese probably began with pictographs and ideographs.
What has the author Nelson Ling-Sun Chou written?
Nelson Ling-Sun Chou has written: 'A new alphameric code for Chinese ideographs'
How is China's writing system different from cuniform and heiroglyphics?
China's writing system has pictures instead of symbols. China's picture names: -Pictographs -Ideographs
What is the difference between hieroglyphics and modern English?
Other than the words, ideographs vs. phonemical letters, direction of writing, complexity of concepts, typical font sizes, and linguistics, I can't think of anything.
