Names in Chinese

In China there exists at present a good number of different writing, which are a reflex of the variety of cultures that exist inside his borders.

The Chinese characters are the most well-known. Since there are the used ones by the Chinese they have (Chinese mandarins for saying it about some form). But inside these Chinese characters, there are still many changes, so much those who owe to his evolution from the original pictographs as the due ones to the different materials used for his writing. The last transformations have happened in the last years, what has provoked that the complicated characters and the simplified ones exist.

Here you can see an example of the evolution of the writing two characters, the used one for pregnant woman "yun" in which there is seen graphically the most archaic character (to the left) with the figure of a person and a child inside his belly, which is stylized by the step of the centuries up to reaching his current form to the right.

In the character used for Chinese character, "zi", that given the big love for the writing of the Chinese collaborates to the image of a child, whom it is necessary to protect inside the house. We see him in his most ancient representation to the left, and as it is simplified and stylizing up to reaching his current form, to the right.

How do the Chinese write a foreign name?

Also, between the women Han of the center of China, discriminated by the society and without opportunity to obtain a formation, a proper language was created several centuries ago, the called "woman's writing" or "nushu", that is already only known by a viejecitas fistful in the Anhui province.