1. CHINESE SYMBOLS By:Wren grade 3 Wren, Grade 3

2. Chinese Symbols Chinese is the oldest written language!

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

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

5. Chinese Symbols Chinese writing has no alphabet.

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

7. Chinese Symbols The number of Chinese characters never stops increasing!

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

9. Chinese Symbols Some symbols look like what they stand for.

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

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

12. Chinese Symbols Links http://www.brown.edu/about/administration/international-affairs/year-of- china/language-and-cultural-resources/introduction-chinese- characters/introduction-chinese-characters http://yalepress.yale.edu/languages/pdf/Yin_chapter1.pdf