汉字

Chinese characters are evolved from the ancient ideographs.

汉字从古老的象形文字发展而来。

The next target is, of course, ideographs from Chinese national standard GB2312, but the number of Han Characters is epic .

下一个目标当然是 GB2312，但是汉字的数目是很大的。

A second language reform required the simplification of ideographs because ideographs with fewer strokes are easier to learn.

由于象形文字笔画较少易学易认，中国政府1951年颁布执行的汉语语言改革方案的第二个部分内容就是对象形汉字进行了简化。

If one or more of these features are different between the ideographs compared, the ideographs are considered to have different abstract shapes and therefore are considered unique characters and are not unified.

统合。如果参与比较的汉字所有的特徵都相同，那末就这些字看成是具有相同的抽象形，加以合并。

But why require schoolchildren to spend time and cognitive energy learning overly complicated ideographs in this age of information explosion, so vastly different from traditional society?

诚然，电脑键盘输入使得多笔画的复杂汉字不成问题，但是，在这个早于古代社会截然不同的信息爆炸的时代，为什么要求学生们花费时间与精力学习过分繁杂的象形文字？

Simplified characters still retain the basic structure of traditional ideographs. The structural continuity makes the switch between them easy and smooth, a skill any educated person can quickly acquire.

简体字仍然保存了汉字的传统表意框架，这种结构上的连续性使得繁、简体字之间的转换顺畅，便易，受过教育的人可以很快掌握。

These ideographs are older than the cuneiform scripts of Mesopotamia, Persia, ancient Egypt, or the Mayas, and even inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of China's Shang Dynasty. They are of great academic value to the study of the development of writing, especially the process from primitive picture writing to pictograph writing and the earliest emergence of Chinese characters.

东巴象形文是一种从从图画字向象形字过渡的文字，这种文字的形态比苏美尔和巴比伦的楔形文字，古埃及的圣书文字、中美洲马雅文字和甲骨文更原始，它对人类原始图画文字如何演进到象形文字，和甲骨文之前汉字发生演变的研究都具有十分重要的学术价值。

I don't know what they call it, but in Chinese,"Kanji" is a type of food.

我不知道他们叫什么，但在中国，&汉字&是一种食物类型。

I can't imagine if the Chinese said,"If we can't use your Miku, you can't use our kanji!"

我可不敢想象如果中国人说：&如果我们不能用你们的Miku，你们也不能用我们的汉字！&

Methodology is a key point in file research of Chinese Characters' Formation.

方法论是汉字发生研究的一个关键问题。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。