EPISODE · May 22, 2025 · 5 MIN
Episode 23: Chinese Characters—One of the Oldest Writing Systems in the World
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Hello, everyone! Welcome to a new episode of "Fly WithMe."Chinese characters, also known as Hanzi, Chinese script, orsquare characters, are the written symbols used to record the Chinese language.As one of the oldest writing systems in the world, Chinese characters have ahistory of around 6,000 years. The earliest existing Chinese characters are theoracle bone script from the Shang Dynasty, around 1300 BCE, dating back overthree thousand years. Chinese characters have evolved from primitivepictographs to the modern form over a long period.
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