What's the difference between "simplified" versus "traditional" characters? |
See below for example of difference between simplified versus traditional Chinese characters, respectively.
Simplified characters were created by the Chinese government (mainland) in an attempt to pr...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:49:00 GMT |
What's the difference between "symbol" versus "character?" |
An example of a Chinese "character" can be found on each of our models' shirts.
According to the American Heritage dictionary "symbol" is defined as "something that represents something else...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:59:00 GMT |
What's the difference between "kanji" versus "hanzi?" |
The term "kanji" technically refers to Japanese writing, while the term "hanzi" refers to Chinese writing.
The Japanese originally had no writing system and borrowed from Chinese script to come up wit...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:40:00 GMT |
What's the difference between "Mandarin" versus "Cantonese?" |
So a request we sometimes get is "I want to get my characters translated and written in Cantonese, not Mandarin."
In short, Chinese writing is the same across the board. Mandarin and Cantonese a...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:34:00 GMT |
How widespread is the Chinese language? |
Some miscellaneous statistics (and facts) I was able to dig up on the Chinese language& and some good reasons why it's not a bad idea to pick up the language& shazam!
Chinese is the ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:33:00 GMT |
What is stroke order and why is it important? |
Stroke order refers to the way Chinese characters are written. A stroke is a single movement of the pen or brush, and each character is composed of a number of strokes. There are quite a f...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:10:00 GMT |
What is "Hanyu Pinyin?" |
There is no true alphabet in written Chinese; instead a system of characters is used, with each character representing a different word or syllable.
However, Chinese can be written using English...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:46:00 GMT |
What's the difference between "transliteration" versus "translation?" |
"Translation" simply means identifying the corresponding word(s) in one language to their meaningful equivalent in another language (as you will find is the case with most of the posts on this si...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:45:00 GMT |
