Classical Chinese
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classical-chinese-164-1124470
title:
Classical Chinese
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Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from c. the 5th century BCE. For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in a form now called Literary Chinese, which was used for almost all formal writing in China until the early 20th century. Each written character corresponds to a single spoken syllable, and almost always to a single independent word. As a result, the characteristic sty
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Literary form of written Chinese
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese
date created:
2002-10-22T03:27:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T17:04:28Z
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