Are there capital letters in traditional Chinese script?

Question

I teach ESL and have one Chinese high school student who has a very hard time remembering to capitalize the first word in a sentence. It made me wonder if traditional Chinese characters have capital and lowercase forms. Does anyone know?

Answer 1

No.
Traditional Chinese script doesn't have *any* letters -- it's all graphic-type characters. They don't have uppper and lower case forms.
Chinese also doesn't have gender or tense -- both are implied by context. Those concepts make it hard sometimes for native Chinese to deal with the gender and tense changes in English and other languages.
Japanese use the same main characters as Chinese, but they added "hiragana" (equivalent to "letters") so they could have gender, tenses, articles, and some other pieces of grammar missing from Chinese.

Answer 2

Capital Letters In Script

Answer 3

Script Capital Letters

Answer 4

No, each Chinese character is written the same wherever it is placed in a sentence. I think maybe that student doesn't have much confidence in learning English, because capitalizing the first letter in a sentence should be taught in junior high school, when English learning should begin in regular school courses.

Answer 5

Capital and minuscule letters are differentiated in the Roman, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Coptic alphabets. maximum writing structures (including those used in Georgian, Glagolitic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Devanagari) make no distinction between capital and lowercase letters, a gadget stated as unicase. certainly, even eu languages did no longer make this distinction till now approximately 1300; the two majuscule and minuscule letters existed, yet a given text fabric would use the two one or the different. In alphabets with a case distinction, capitals are used for capitalization, acronyms, and emphasis (in some languages).Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in uppercase and the the rest letters in lowercase. Capitalization policies variety by skill of language and are frequently quite complicated, yet in maximum cutting-side languages that have capitalization, the 1st word of each and every sentence is capitalized, as are all suited nouns. some languages, including German, capitalize the 1st letter of all nouns; this grew to become into in the previous person-friendly in English besides. (See the article on capitalization for an in intensity record of norms).

Answer 6

No they don't! They don't use alphabets. They usually don't write pinyin either of your student is from Mainland China. People from Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan learn traditional Chinese, while people from Mainland China learn simplified Chinese. Pinyin wouldn't be written out to communicate. This problem may be to due to excessive use of instant messaging. Abbreviations and acronyms have been adopted into instant messaging and are extremely popular. Examples are "u" for "you" and "AKA" for "as known as" etc. Many people do not use proper English during instant messaging and it is very common for users to not capitalize the first letter in a sentence.

Answer 7

No...only if English translation is used and at the proper places for these capital letters.

Answer 8

No, because the Chinese srcript is ideographic. One character=1 word.

Answer 9

no, there's no such "letter" nor "script" exist in chinese writing. one character in chinese means one word itself, multiple characters might have different meaning other than stands alone...we have more than 47,000 characters in total (according to the popular consi dictionary from Qin dynasty, but of course we don't use all of them in daily life).

character itself is like a unique drawing, you can't "capitalized" a drawing, can you??

Answer 10

No, I think its only in languages that use the English(Roman) script that do that.

I think even the Romans used all capitals :-p