Draft:Outline of Chinese characters

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Chinese characters:

What type of thing are Chinese characters?
A Chinese character can be described as all of the following:
 * Glyph – a purposeful mark.
 * Grapheme – the underlying unit with that may have.
 * Logograph – a grapheme representing a morpheme, a unit of meaning.
 * Syllabograph – a grapheme representing a spoken syllable. Written Chinese functions.


 * Writing system (– represents a written language by means of a script and rules for its use

Chinese character structure

 * Stroke
 * Component
 * Character
 * Chinese character description languages

History of Chinese characters

 * History of Chinese characters
 * Chinese script styles
 * Oracle bone script (c. 1200)
 * Bronze script

Writing systems using Chinese characters

 * Written Chinese
 * Kanji
 * Hanja
 * Sawndip
 * Chữ Hán

Chinese character sets

 * Chinese character sets
 * Chinese dictionaries
 * Chinese character encodings

Scholars of Chinese characters

 * Yang Xiong (53 BC – 18 AD)
 * Xu Shen (c. 58) – Editor of the Shuowen Jiezi (100 AD)
 * Zhou Youguang (1906–2017)
 * Qiu Xigui (b. 1935)