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The Chinese Writing System
The Chinese Writing System
The Chinese Writing System (1): Association with both form and meaning
The Chinese Writing System (2): Are characters monosyllabic words?
The Chinese Writing System (3): The form of characters
The Chinese Writing System (4): A bridge between dialects
The Chinese Writing System (5): How characters have moulded the language
The following are side notes:
Exceptions to the generalisation that Chinese characters represent monosyllables
'Self-fulfilling prophecy': How Chinese characters confer independent status on elements that were not originally independent
The addition of a meaning element (radical) in creating new Chinese characters
Mainland Chinese getting it wrong with traditional characters, and vice versa
