Common heritage

Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of written Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of ancient Chinese, making it different from any modern spoken ...

written vernacular Chinese

Language; General language

Written vernacular Chinese refers to forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular language, in contrast to Classical Chinese, the written standard used from the Spring and ...

clerical script

Language; General language

The clerical script is an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy, which evolved in the Warring States period to the Qin dynasty and was dominant in the Han dynasty. It is highly ...

seal script

Language; General language

Seal script is an ancient style of Chinese calligraphy, which evolved out of the Zhou dynasty script. During the Qin dynasty, the Qin variant of seal script became standard and ...

Taiwanese Hokkien

Language; General language

Taiwanese Hokkien, commonly known as Taiwanese is the Hokkien dialect of Min Nan as spoken by about 70% of the population of Taiwan.

Standard Chinese

Language; General language

Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Chinese (also known as Mandarin and Putonghua) is a standardised variety of Chinese and the official language of the People’s Republic of ...