3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Origin of Chinese Characters

3.3 The Six Major Stages in the Development of Chinese Characters

老师课堂交流区:Question 1 for Unit 3

In your opinion, what makes Chinese characters so special and unique?

1:I think,our country have significant old culture which is pregnant with the characters and other traditions.

2:what it contains the history,civilization and culture

3:Chinese characters are not composed of letters. Chinese characters are unique .

3.4 The Conformation of Chinese Characters

老师课堂交流区:Question 2 for Unit 4:Could you use English to describe the strokes used in the Chinese character “顺”？

1:Stroke is the  smallest units of chinese chracters.  When you write this character, First ,write from left to right, then write from up to down.

2:Smooth； no obstacles；go in the same direction；obey, not disobey

3:Left-falling stroke ,vertical stroke ,left-falling stroke ,horizontal stroke,left-falling stroke ,vertical stroke ,horizontal turning ,left-falling,right-falling.

4:The structure of Chinese characters is in order, which needs to be coordinated with the characters.

3.5 The Characteristics of Chinese Characters

老师课堂交流区:Question 3 for Unit 3

What are the differences between bronze inscriptions and regular script?

1:Bronze inscriptions are the scripts on Chinese ritual bronzes .Regular script is straight in line,fewer in strokes,also called "Kai" in Chinese,which means good examples for standard writing in form.Chinese characters have the following characteristics:pictograph and ideographic.The two points make it special characters.

2:Regular Script emerged in the later Han period ,developed during Wei and Jin dynasty,and become popular in Tang dynaty.It is the most inluential script ande still widely used today.It is simpler in form ,fewer in strokes and straight in line.

3.6 Seminar

Unit 3 Quiz

1单选(1分)__C___mainly refer to those discovered in Yin Dynasty Ruins, that is, characters inscribed on bones or tortoise shells in the Shang Dynasty more than____ thousand years ago.

A.Regular Script…four

B.Bronze Inscriptions…six

C.Oracle Bone Scripts… three

D.Clerical Script…two

2单选(1分)

According to The Six Categories of Chinese Characters(六书)，there are six rules of Chinese character conformation, including: pictographs, self-explanatory character, associative components, ___D____, phonetic loan characters and synonymous character.

A.picto-semantic characters

B.semantic characters

C.phonetic characters

D.picto-phonetic characters

3单选(1分)

According to what you have learned in the course, which one is NOT one of the various sayings concerning the origin of Chinese characters?C

A."Picture theory" B."Eight Trigrams"

C."Totem" D.The legendary story about Cang Jie

4判断(1分)

The formation of the Clerical Script is an important turning point in the evolution of Chinese characters because it lays a foundation for the squatter shape of the later script forms.RIGHT