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Japan was the first country in Asia to open up to the outside world. During the Meiji period, a large number of Japanese scholars studied in Europe and created a lot of modern Chinese based on Western vocabulary. It can be said that Chinese character culture has been well integrated through Japanese and Western civilization. For example, "democracy", "freedom", "science", "evolution", "philosophy", "revolution", "***", etc. These words are all Japanese based on Chinese characters and combined with advanced Western concepts. Concepts, words created that can be accepted by the public.

In fact, during the Qing Dynasty, domestic scholars also created some new vocabulary, but they were not successful. Because Chinese literati like to show off their literary talent. The more profound the words they create, the better they appear to be literary, so they did not consider the issue of popularization. At that time, Chinese-made words such as "telephone" would be difficult for a person who had never learned English to think that they were telephones, while the Japanese word "telephone" was easier to understand.

Chinese is divided into standard language and dialects

Modern Standard Chinese is Mandarin, with Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation. The pronunciation collection place is located in Jingoutun Town, Luanping County, Chengde City, Hebei Province , with Mandarin as the basic dialect and typical modern vernacular works as the grammatical standard. In modern standard Chinese, there are four tones except soft tones.

Dialects of Chinese are the Chinese spoken in various places. The Chinese language family is generally divided into 13 languages ??(based on the International Organization for Standardization ISO 639-3 international language code), and each language can be divided into multiple language fragments. The thirteen languages ??of the Chinese language family are: Mandarin, Jin, Cantonese, Xiang, Wu, Hui, Gan, Hakka, Northern Hokkien, Southern Hokkien, Eastern Hokkien, Chinese Hokkien, Putian, etc.