Contrastive Study on Similarities and Differences between Chinese and English Characters

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10.2991/iccese-17.2017.73How to use a DOI?

Keywords

contrast of Chinese and English Characters; phonogram; ideograph; pictograph

Abstract

Chinese and English belong to different language families. For a long time, it is generally believed that Chinese is "ideograph", English is "phonogram", and the differences between them are obvious, with very few similarities. This paper plans to start from the overall nature and function of the characters, to analyze the similarities of the two languages, and list other differences between the two languages besides the ideographic and phonetic differences.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xue Liu
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TI  - Contrastive Study on Similarities and Differences between Chinese and English Characters
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Culture, Education and Financial Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 285
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