Chinese script refers to the writing system used for the Chinese language and, in various forms, for several other East Asian languages. It is one of the oldest writing systems in the world, with a history that spans thousands of years. Chinese characters, also known as logographic characters, are ideographic scripts, meaning each character represents a meaningful word or a meaningful radical part of a word. The script is used in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and other Chinese communities around the world. There are thousands of characters, and they can be written vertically from top to bottom or horizontally from left to right.
