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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 japanese language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label japanese language. Show all posts
Monday, 29 October 2012
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Hot Words Four
My apologies if I posted this before !
I've been checking the prior posts to make sure nothing accidently stayed at the draft stage due to a technical glitch earlier in the year when I changed browsers.
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
IKI'S NOT ICKY
I particularly like this word!
apart form the irony of which word it sounds like in English the character itself has elegance and its an excellent example of how a word can change meaning by semantic extension and shift.
Some one fluent in "Sino Japanese long ago referred some person of style as having PURE elegance and that I suspected is how the word came to change when used by educated Japanese and perhaps also people whose grasp of kanji and the differences between Japanese and Chinese wasnt quite as good as they thought?
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