Introduction to Mandarin Writing Quiz

The earliest evidence of Ancient Chinese writing was found in the early:

• 20th century BC

• 20th century AD

• 20th century AC

• 20th century CE

This Chinese writing style used written characters that were simple in form.

• dazhuan

• caoshu

• lishu

• jiaguwen

This style blends strokes together and makes the character more rounded.

• cursive style

• clerical style

• running style

• great seal

This is described as the sound of the character.

• phonetic symbol

• tones

• radical symbol

• strokes

Tools used to inscribed in bones and shells.

• fire

• wood

• clay

• metal tools

This writing style is used different stroke thicknesses to form characters and the corners of the characters were rounded rather than coming to a “squared-off” point.

• lishu

• jiaguwen

• caoshu

• dazhuan

This make it easier for the government officials and clerks to write all of the incoming information.

• xingshu

• caoshu

• dazhuan

• lishu

He recognized a need for standardization in how characters were formed and their meaning.

• Han

• Jin

• Qin Shihuangdi

• Kim

This writing appears that the writers were beginning to use the character to represent the word for the object rather than making the character look like the object

• big seal

• small seal

• cursive style

• regular style

This showed the broad topic the character represented.

• strokes

• phonetic symbol

• radical symbol

• tones