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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 hakka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hakka. Show all posts
Friday, 14 February 2014
Monday, 28 October 2013
Copper Tong
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Drat the space between Too and Doo disappeared!
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Thursday, 29 August 2013
Monday, 22 July 2013
Buddhist Temple SHA CHA Hanzi
SHA / cha is a less common term for a Buddhist Temple
Buddhist temples that do not have pagodas or gate towers will probably still have a small stupa or a bell tower / pavilion.
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Buddhist temples that do not have pagodas or gate towers will probably still have a small stupa or a bell tower / pavilion.
Monday, 13 May 2013
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
E crocodile
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| Copyright Julie Vaux 2013 While the phonetic looks like a scale pattern I do wonder if Dongson drums could have been an influence? Crocodiles can be noisy during mating season . I like the way the modern form suggests a crocodile's eyes and tail . |
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Friday, 19 October 2012
Monday, 8 October 2012
SUPER CHO
#unihan #super #chinese #japanese #hanzi
There's a question mark next to the Min entry cos I came across two conflicting entries. It may be that one form is Taiwanese Min and the other Hokkien Amoy Min?
Anyway now you can say SUPER in several languages!
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There's a question mark next to the Min entry cos I came across two conflicting entries. It may be that one form is Taiwanese Min and the other Hokkien Amoy Min?
Anyway now you can say SUPER in several languages!
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Thursday, 20 September 2012
The 3 History Jis
There are several words and characters for History in Chinese.
Here's 3 of them that are very similar in sound although written with different characters.
What's the reason for this?
Bamboo Books!
Well books made of long bamboo or wooden strips.
Side bound paper books and scrolls of paper or silk were a later development.
Monday, 19 March 2012
IMPERIOUS REX!
IMPERIAL ROYAL okay not a fictional Atlantean prince but rather the character for white over the character read as jade or ruler.
White jade was regarded as fit for kings emperors and royalty and not just by the Chinese.
Artisans associated with the Indian Mughal court created some very beautiful white jadeite vessel and other objects.
China's royalty valued necklaces of beads of white jade.
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Royal wives and concubines - FEI
Fei is a word often translated as Princess but bear in mind it refers to someone who is bound in a relationship to another aristocrat. I rather suspect the radical tang form started with an aspirate p or it was something like that sound in Fuji that occassionally gets transliterated as a H so you see Huzi instead of Fuji in some texts.
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