【集思晨读 Lewis Day 87 中国文化特辑 】
016 Chinese Characters 汉字
Good morning, everyone! It's Wed. 4th March. I am Lewis saying hello to you all from Yangzhou.
大家周三早上好，今天是三月四号! 我是Lewis，在扬州给大家晨读！
今天的中国文化特辑跟大家分享 汉字 Chinese Character
1. The marks carved on rocks 8,000 years ago are regarded as the first example of Chinese characters-Hanzi.
2. Ancient Chinese recorded what they saw in the world by drawing.
3. Legends say that Chinese characters are pictures which can be read.
4. Westerners often say that Hanzi are pictographs.
5. This is because the first Hanzi were pictographs which conveyed meaning through physical resemblance to physical objects.
6. Meanwhile, some Hanzi are composed of symbols which represent sound.
7. Looking back at history, we can understand the life of people in ancient China with Hanzi.
8. There are 2,500 frequently used characters.
9. A good grasp of these Hanzi is like reading an encyclopedia on China.
10. Welcome to the mysterious world of Hanzi.
