Though these kinds of characters indicate meanings, one of their shortcomings is that they do not show how they should be pronounced.
尽管这些字可以表意,但缺点就是它们显示不出自己的发音。
Therefore, a method was developed to have one part of a character indicate the meaning and the other suggest the pronunciation.
于是就产生了另外一种方法:将表意的部分和表音的部分结合起来,形成一个汉字。
Many Chinese characters used today were made this way.
目前所使用的很多汉字就是用这种方法创造出来的。
In the 1950s the Chinese government introduced simplified Chinese characters and now they have widespread use in China's mainland.
20世纪50年代,中国政府推行简化汉字,现在,简化字已在中国大陆广泛使用。