චීනයේ සහ ජපානයේ භාවිත වන චීන අක්ෂරවල සම්භවය සහ විකාශය (රූපාක්ෂර කලාවේ සිට වත්මන් අක්ෂර කලාව දක්වා පැමිණි ගමන් මඟ)

Abstract

Chinese characters are one of the most historical letters in the world. It has originated from pictographs about 4,000 years ago. Chinese traditional characters are also used in Japan and are called “Kanji”. Due to the large number of strokes in a single Chinese character, it has been converted to characters with a few strokes in order to facilitate writing. These simplified characters are called as “Hanzi” in China mainland carrying the historical value of ancient Chinese characters.