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Questions about Chinese characters, called Hanzi.
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Can anyone interpret the characters shown in this photograph?
This hand painted seal is located in the bottom right section of the bamboo watercolor painting shown. Believed to be a surname written in an early Chinese script.[characters hand painted with ...
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Can you help me identify the artists
I'm trying to identify the artist behind these Chinese seals. It appears on 2 pieces of Chinese art (horse and horses) in my collection, likely created between the pre-war 1940s and post-war 1950s.
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"Old fashioned" characters on the title page (?) of Chinese classics
I was looking at Wikipedia pages about some of the old Chinese classics (these ones are mathematical in nature) and noticed some odd characters that look "ancient" or "old-fashioned,&...
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Shape evolution of 糞?
Very recently, I came across another character whose origins seem to be pretty interesting. The character here in question is 糞 (fèn, manure; dung) and the origin I've learned from this character is ...
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What do these characters from a red gift envelope mean
專家之囍
They are vertical on the envelope,the left character is on the top. Thank you.
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What does the "衣" mean in 薰衣草 (Lavender)?
My initial assumption was that the 衣 (clothing) was a metaphor for the strong fragrant. As it goes:
熏 = Drifting essence, such as smoke
衣 = Clothing
薰衣 = Fragrant Robe; Scented Clothes(?)
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What's the purpose of the character, "有" in this sentence?
I was watching a Chinese documentary about the origin of Chinese characters and this was the opening statement:
"从有记载的夏朝开始中国历史上经历了夏，商，周，秦，汉，晋，隋，唐，宋，元，明，清等之要朝代。"
"Ever since the recorded ...
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Is there a pattern: combining left-side form, 攴 vs 攵?
Some characters listed under this radical have its presentation form (攴) while others always have (攵) right-side-combining. Is there a diachronic shift between the two that got fixed or frozen? Is/was ...
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Glyph origin of phonetic 疌 in 捷?
So about recently while I was doing my usual hobby of researching the origins of Chinese glyphs, I came across a character with a phonetic component I don't think I had seen before. The character in ...
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What is ?口?合觜? What does it mean?
Saw this post on Reddit the other day.
What is the character downward left?
As far as I can tell the IDS would be: ?口?合觜.
I cannot seem to find any information on it myself. Ideas?
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Bottom radical: 心 vs. ?: which and when?
Suppose I were to create a new character, or regularize an obscure ancient character and needed to put the 心 at the bottom. There are two forms or 'heart' at the bottom of a character.
Is (or was) ...
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How was 煞 created from 殺?
Something that I've always found interesting whenever I am researching some glyph origins is when some new characters are made via corruption of the original character to represent a new sense related ...
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Characters besides 年 that contain 年 as a component
I have tried looking up random characters that contain 年 as a component, but so far have not found any besides 年 itself. Do any exist?
我试了试用网上词典找在里面有"年"的汉字，但是还没找到（除了"年"自己）。有没有这种汉字？
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How many percentages of radicals of the Chinese characters have a meaningful indication?
I see the following comment to this question
I think you are having a naive, oversimplistic idea of our characters, like they are indexed by radicals and each radical forms a semantic field. No, the ...
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Chinese bronze dagger inscriptions
I am adding photos of an Archistic bronze dagger mimicking a jade piece. On the obverse is an astronomical constellation and some calligraphic inscriptions; can anyone translate them, please?
