(Chinese) is the language of China, especially the language of the Han Nationality. In the cultural circle of Chinese characters and overseas Chinese communities, Chinese is also called Chinese and Chinese.
Chinese (mandarin) language and dialect, the standard mandarin, is the specification of the nationality common language, is also China's national common language, generally can be divided into: modern Chinese dialect, Wu mandarin dialect and dialect and dialect, min dialect, Chinese characters are in Chinese writing system, can recognize Chinese characters is the earliest existing shells of oracle and , later evolved into the dynasty during the western dynasty, the dynasty developed and transferred to , to the south-north official script, the official script of nationalities become model into a block letters, and regular script prevailing in southern and northern dynasties, up to now.
Modern Chinese characters refer to the kai - kai characters, including traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese.
On January 1, 2001, China implemented the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Standard Spoken and Written Chinese language, which established the legal status of Putonghua and standardized Chinese characters as the standard spoken and written Chinese language.
At present, the number of Chinese characters (Chinese characters) is more than 1.7 billion, covering the whole of China (mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan) and East Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions with Chinese characters cultural circle.
Chinese is also one of the six working languages of the United Nations.
