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My first new technozi after a long break caused by a broken arm.
My next sequence will be equine words!
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 li. Show all posts
Showing posts with label li. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 May 2014
LI is a black horse
My first new technozi after a long break caused by a broken arm.
My next sequence will be equine words!
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Beautiful LI
Another character using the Deer radical is LI. some scholars claim the top part of the character which is the basis for the modern simplified form shows horns with beads between them. Others say its just the horns. I suspect its horns since the first signs of deer visiting your fields to help themselves to one's crops for an irate farmer would have been horns towering over wheat or millet?
Yes venison! beautiful and tasty for a hungry farmer!? Perhaps?
Another thought? I wonder if deer horns were ever used for beads and jewellery?
Enjoy using the character image even if you don't like or agree with my speculations?
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