Chinese Writing

Chinese Writing

Fortunately, all Chinese use the same system of writing. This system of writing, which is called "hanzi" is greatly different from the system of writing English. In English the written letter represent sounds, whereas "hanzi" uses symbols to represent ideas and objects. This use of symbols instead of sounds allows the Chinese writing system to be easily understood by this large population. This photograph of modern Singapore is framed by neon Chinese signs. [BM] {VA}