Starting with this revised #technozi #hanzi #kanji #hanja #unihan
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A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Showing posts with label asian languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label asian languages. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 April 2018
FOX TECHNOZI
Next Sequence for the Year of the Dog #FOXES #FOX
Starting with this revised #technozi #hanzi #kanji #hanja #unihan
Starting with this revised #technozi #hanzi #kanji #hanja #unihan
Sunday, 5 June 2016
RHINO XI
#rhino #unihan #hanzi #asian languages
yes I have not forgotten I said I would post about Chinese sculpture 1
Regard this as a footnote to the previous post!
I'm also experimenting with a new card format!
Note how the ideogram refers to rhinos as a browser / grazer and the top part of the character while not being the character for nose reminds one of a rhino's most dominant feature the nose horn which is what rhinoceros literally is in Greek!
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yes I have not forgotten I said I would post about Chinese sculpture 1
Regard this as a footnote to the previous post!
I'm also experimenting with a new card format!
Note how the ideogram refers to rhinos as a browser / grazer and the top part of the character while not being the character for nose reminds one of a rhino's most dominant feature the nose horn which is what rhinoceros literally is in Greek!
I'm not earning much from Google Adsense so
I am now on Patreon !
Why pledge on Patreon? I nearly have enough posts to do either a book of Technozi or a book on Chinese or Japanese art ... however paying for PR helps with payment on the web and sales so Patreon Pledges while I'm editing!
You can also support this blog via
paypal.me/JulieVaux
Thank You
Friday, 27 November 2015
TWO CATS
#twocats #chinese #cats #hanzi #japanese #asianlanguage
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Note the elements of this character: the cat is a ferocious small predator that comes near rice fields or the dog/ animal + rice field
I wonder if cats once hunted snakes and eels and other food in rice paddies?
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Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Friday, 24 July 2015
WHITE BAI
#hanzi #kanji #asianlanguages
White is on my mind due to the recent and rare snowstorms in Australia.
Hence the color gradient on the outline of bai.
Did you know white as shiro or shira is the most frequently used adjective in the famous 100 poets Japanese Anthology of Heian waka usually as a reference to snow or frost?
White is on my mind due to the recent and rare snowstorms in Australia.
Hence the color gradient on the outline of bai.
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Did you know white as shiro or shira is the most frequently used adjective in the famous 100 poets Japanese Anthology of Heian waka usually as a reference to snow or frost?
If anyone knows words for white in other Asian languages which I havnt listed here feel free to add them in the comments.
Saturday, 18 July 2015
Saturday, 11 July 2015
Thursday, 2 July 2015
CANG Green
Continuing on in our series on color adjectives we come to Cang
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Saturday, 14 June 2014
Friday, 7 March 2014
I AM WOMAN
What other theme could I post on International Womans Day !
ENJOY
The font for this character was Kai Ti
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Station EKI
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Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Thursday, 18 July 2013
MIAO TEMPLE
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As far as I can make out from conflicting definitions in the references I have access to Miao is a word originally used to describe audience halls for officials and royalty and now used for shrines tutelary temples and and Confucian temples. However Confucian "Temples" are usually compounds including study halls and shrines for deified scholars and ancestors of local clans and sometimes shrines for local deities. I suspect it depends given the on and off hostility between some Taoists and Confucianists on how strict an interpretation of Confucianism is followed and taught at the particular shrine.
Possibly the best place to see Confucian shrines is now Taiwan or South Korea?
I've read but not seen of Indonesian and Malaysian Shrines being called LI TANG which means something like Ritual Halls.
Friday, 1 March 2013
Ai Haze
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What I wish we had today instead of all this heavy rain!
The fonts are Segoe and SimHei
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Monday, 21 January 2013
XUN Fragance
Hey readers please read the following post about how this hanzi is used in a famous haiku! Yes I have used different fonts this time too!
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Elephant Xiang
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Scribal Note
I found out AFTER I finished the card there's another Austroasiatic word used in Vietnamese for elephant.
So a request and reminder If you know of any words in Chinese dialects or Asian languages that I couldn't find please send them to me via the comments box or email? I go thru every major Internet resource and ALL my PRINT reference books but sometimes ...
Friday, 28 September 2012
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Saturday, 22 September 2012
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