The Study Of The History Of Chinese Writing By Words

The writing mode of Chinese originally was writen by character,because in ancient Chinese,most of all were monosyllabic words,for example mü,zǘ,huì,yì,etc.So as not to cause different meanings easily,and also not to require writing by words.With the development of Chinese Pinyin text and character text,disyllables become more and more common.So there rise a series of problems,like different meanings of the word.The establishment of Chinese writing by words contains many steps.Not only the choice of Pinyin text's letters,laying out the rules of writing by words,but also the experiment and advocate of Chinese character writing by words,many generations take great efforts.The primary context of this paper is to study the history of Chinese writing by words,naturally there are two parts:history of Chinese Pinyin text writing by words and history of Chinese character text writing by words.The history of Chinese Pinyin text writing by words experiences germination phase of foreigners laying out Chinese Phonetic Alphabet and several projects trying writing by words in Qie Yin Character Movement in Qing Dynasty,development phase of National Rome Character emphasizing writing by words and imprecision orthography of Latin New Character,and maturation phase of coming out with"Basic rules for Hanyu Pinyin Orthography"formally.There are three phases in the history of Chinese character text writing by words.First,the period of National Rome Character and Latin New Character,some scholars tried writing by words.Second,after the establishment of New China,the time of publishing "Chinese Phonetic Alphabet Project",in order to study Chinese Phonetic Alphabet and Mandarin,there were many publications with character and Chinese phonetic alphabet together,and the books of Chinese characters writing by words from top to bottom.Third,with the development of computer technology and requirement of Chinese words antomatic segmentation,many scholars advocate and carry out writing by words by themselves.The paper according to two parts of history of Chinese character text writing by words and history of Chinese Pinyin text writing by words,display their own histories,analyzes every phase's developing feature,and tries to comparing with each other,forecasts their developing directions in the future.