Chinese characters are used in writing Chinese, Japanese, Korean and formerly Vietnamese. They are subdivided into traditional Chinese characters, which are used officially in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau in their modern shapes since the 5th century, and simplified characters, which were developed in 1950 based on phonetic simplifications to decrease strokes and simplify writing and were approved for teaching schoolchildren and foreigners in 1958.

1. Chinese character Marje Kullamägi

2. Are used in: Writing Japanese, Chinese Korean Formely Vietnamese

3. Subdivided Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese Pinyin

4. Traditional characters In modern shapes Since 5th century Officiallyused in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

5. Simplified characters 1950-simplified system Based on phonetic simplifications Decreased the numbers of strokes Simplifying the sizable proportion

7. Pinyin “ spell sound” or “spelling of the sound” February 11, 1958- was approved Teach schoolchildren and foreign

8. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_character http://rishida.net/scripts/chinese/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters