What's in a Word?

Learning About Chinese Writing

This lesson introduces students to the earliest type of Chinese writing in the form of pictograms. This lesson further introduces a type of writing system that does not use Roman alphabet letters to spell out words phonetically. The student will learn that the earliest Chinese written words derived from picture-writing (pictograms), for which each word, or character, has its own pronunciation and meaning.

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• Lesson Guide (pdf 10k)
• Pictogram Sheet (pdf 152k)