Is mandarin the standard language of written Chinese?

In ancient China the Chinese use pictures like the Egyptians, but later on the pictures became more like words.

The symbols that represent words that are used in writing Chinese are called "hanzi". One character would be called a "han" character. Japanese written language would be called "kanji".

No, the first written expression or language is considered Cuneiform. However, the first written language still used today is considered Hwbrew, Greek or Chinese.

It is written in Chinese characters, which is a logarithmic writing system. About 5% are pictographs, around 5% are ideographs, around 60% are phonetic-picture compounds, and aroung 30% are in some...