CHINESE SYMBOLS By:Wren grade 3 Wren, Grade 3. Chinese Symbols Chinese is the oldest written language!

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

A Short History of Writing: Ouaknin

Advertisements

History of Type and Alphabets A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.

Teppo Räisänen School of Business and Information Management Oulu University of Applied Sciences.

Anthropology 250 Issues in Anthropology Writing Systems.

CHINESE WRITING By Tessa Erickson Thoemke 泰莎泰莎. H ISTORY The Chinese writing system is one of the oldest known written languages in the world. The earliest.

Chinese Writing Today. Will Chinese abandon characters for an alphabet?

Writing and Literacy Chapter 7. What is this sign?

Writing Systems of the Ancient World

 Many legends associated with the inventions of writing.  Greek legend – Prince of Phonecia, Cadmus  Chinese Fable – their 4-eyed dragon god, Cang.

1 WRITING SYSTEMS. 2 Writing The word writing has three related but distinct meanings : 1.system or characters 2.penmanship or handwriting 3.composition.

Development of Written Language

What is Calligraphy? Chinese painting, poetry, and calligraphy are endlessly bound together in one beautiful art form The matching combination of pictures.

By.. Miss Prangtip Kaewsuphot

Reference Materials: Dictionary, thesaurus and glossary

Symbolism in “The Help”. Symbolism notes A symbol is something that represents something else, either by association or by resemblance. It can be a material.

Chapter 3 The Development of Writing. Is Writing as early as speaking? Writing is relatively new - it was invented for the first time by the Sumerians.

TENTH GRADE LABORATORY PAST SIMPLE vs PAST PROGRESSIVE (continuous)

S ymbols The alphabet of human thought. The power of symbols A symbol is something which represents an idea, a physical entity or a process but is distinct.

Anthropology 340 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Writing Systems.

Absorb-Type Activity - Learning Hiragana Symbols Yuki Moore.

The Origins and Development of the English Language Chapter 3: Letters and Sounds: A Brief History of Writing John Algeo and Thomas Pyles Michael Cheng.

Dr. Harriet J. Ottenheimer Chapter 7 Writing and Literacy.

From “ ’’ to “ 日 ’’ Introduction to Chinese Characters Presented by Chunfang Zhao Arabic and Asian Language Office Texas A&M University.

Color Symbolism Directions: Brainstorm a list of connotative associations for each color below. Black Gray Purple Yellow White Pink Red Blue Green.

Morphology A Closer Look at Words By: Shaswar Kamal Mahmud.

Language and Communication ELA 9. How do we communicate?

The Evolution of Writing BC scribes in Sumer created cuneiform – pressing wedge shaped marks into wet clay Writing began as pictographs – pictures.

Gigi’s presentation: How to write Chinese?. Why I talk about Chinese? Mandarin Chinese is taking off in British schools (independent,2007)

Warm-Up What governmental and economic systems does the United States of America utilize?

Absolute Value Inequalities

Introduction to Foreign Language Chapter 1: Communication Chapter 2: Languages of the World.

Introduction to Symbolism. Symbolism Derived from Greek word meaning “to throw together.” Creates direct meaningful equation between (1) a specific object,

 Image you were in 8000 years ago, just have spare time from hunting, how do you record the nature and events around you?  Draw a simple picture. 

How to teach writing.

Types of Sentences Simple and Compound. STANDARDS: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage.

Advanced Word Problem Structures First Grade.  Taking Apart Into Three Parts.

Chapter One The origin and forms of Chinese characters.

Early writing systems or Why is writing important? How do we use writing?

Careers in the Printing Industry Why is it important to communicate?

Is Latin A “Dead” Language? By: Jill Corozzo Latin 7 By: Jill Corozzo Latin 7.

Unit 2 Language Module 3 The development of Chinese characters.

Introduction 3 Learning Chinese: Learning Mandarin Chinese, Three Content Areas 1. Sounds: Mandarin, Pinyin 2. Shapes: Written Characters, Hanzi 3. Meanings:

Project Designing a booklet

Graphic Arts 110 Pictograms Ideograms Phonograms.

Look at the following sentences:

Introduction to Linguistics

Ancient Japanese Language

TEFL (TEACHING OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Four Types of Sentences

It’s an Inside Out kind of thing.

Symbolism By: Kane S English 7th.

Origins of Written Language By Lorette Mann-Dale 2016

Method of Language Definition

What is the characteristic of an alphabetic writing system?

What is History? 1-5.

SPANISH GRADE EIGHT SPANISH

Complex sentences.

Ancient Written Language

Look at the following sentences:

Information in Monolingual Dictionaries

Look at the following sentences:

Lesson 3: Grammar.

WARM UP Where do we get our language?.

Clues to Theme in Literature

Can you put the symbols in?

LANGUAGE EDUCATION.

Доброе утро! 2 октября 2008 г..

Ancient Chinese Language

ASCII and Unicode.

Presentation transcript:

CHINESE SYMBOLS By:Wren grade 3 Wren, Grade 3

Chinese Symbols Chinese is the oldest written language!

Chinese Symbols Written Chinese developed about 4,000 years ago!

Chinese Symbols To be considered a literate person, one needs to study at least 3,000 symbols!

Chinese Symbols Chinese writing has no alphabet.

Chinese Symbols There are more then 100,000 Chinese symbols!

Chinese Symbols The number of Chinese characters never stops increasing!

Chinese Symbols Some symbols can be put together to make a new symbol.

Chinese Symbols Some symbols look like what they stand for.

Chinese Symbols There are six kinds of Chinese characters: pictographic, indicative, associative, pictophonetic, explanative, and phonetic lone characters.

Chinese Symbols Chinese grammar is relatively simple compared to languages with Latin and Greek origins. There are no verb conjugations.

Chinese Symbols Links china/language-and-cultural-resources/introduction-chinese- characters/introduction-chinese-characters