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  1. I have not verified the original Han-zi (Kanji) provided below. I generated the table in a few seconds with an LLM: there maybe errors So I still have to check those orignal chinese characters #hanzi

  2. Little fun challenge!
    First attempt at writing the biáng character, which is a type of noodle in Shaanxi cuisine. Deemed the most complex "genuine" Chinese character with its 58 strokes. Full of flaws but not too bad for a first I guess.
    Next challenge: an "artistic" character made of 172 strokes. Wish me luck!

    #Chinese #ChineseCharacter #hanzi #calligraphy #ChineseCalligraphy #汉字 #书法 #ink

  3. Little fun challenge!
    First attempt at writing the biáng character, which is a type of noodle in Shaanxi cuisine. Deemed the most complex "genuine" Chinese character with its 58 strokes. Full of flaws but not too bad for a first I guess.
    Next challenge: an "artistic" character made of 172 strokes. Wish me luck!

    #Chinese #ChineseCharacter #hanzi #calligraphy #ChineseCalligraphy #汉字 #书法 #ink

  4. aus der reihe "schöne ideen, zufällig entdeckt" heute: in der erlangen-nürnberger #sinologie stellt sich das team jeweils mit einem #hànzì-#schriftzeichen vor: sinologie.phil.fau.de/

  5. With my renewal effort to expand my non-English follows on Mastodon, I got reminded of "惑星": #Japanese way to describe Planet. Apparently it means "wandering stars" as we know the trajectory of planets is not so regular. But in #Chinese 惑 has a meaning of attractive, so since my youth I always feel that is rather romantic way to think about planet: an attractive star! Wondering what are the other #Hanzi language word for planet? eg #Korean and #Vietnamese ?

  6. @serge

    The red sticky poster are part of New Year celebrations deco. We stick it on the door and usually with #Hanzi saying things one wishes for.

    in this particular one
    蟒蟒壯壯 mǎng mǎng zhuàng zhuàng literally meant "python python strong strong"🤣 as it will be year of snake, it makes sense.
    but the joke or the fun is that it is a play of phonene as
    莽莽撞撞 is a common phrase pronounces exactly the same but means hot-headed; rash; impetuous.

    @miau715

  7. @chu
    In #Taiwan, we used 人氣: presence of people, for example one can say "人氣商品" to mean "popular product",
    It is possibly an borrowing from Japanese 人気 (ninki). It has spread to Hong Kong and other #Hanzi countries since 80s

  8. Via @unseenjapan this is amazing again showcase how #Hanzi is a common culture root for East Asian #Ruisist counties
    mstdn.jp/@unseenjapan/11367632

  9. Inspired by @chu about #Hanzi that is difficult to translate:
    I feel the first come to mind is really 孝
    It is a word that shapes all #Ruism family relation since young age.
    Recent Pixar animation "Turning Red" is tackling this very concept in the story line: how do you practise 孝 without losing yourself? Domee Shi did a very good job, and Sandra Oh as the mother is just apt! Worth watching! (Oh being Korean decent doesn't dilute this concept, as most Korean would obey 孝 even more rigidly )

  10. The latest version of the free BabelStone Han font (v.16.0.2), by Andrew West (魏安), has just been released. It includes more than 60,000 CJK unified ideographs, and supports a provisional set of 2,452 ideographic variation sequences (IVS) for 1,196 characters.

    🔗 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.htm
    🔗 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/BSH_IVS

    #unicode #babelstone #font #cjk #han #hanzi #kanji #hanja

  11. In other words the venerable biáng character of Biangbiang noodle fame now shows up by default on iOS!

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbia

    Simplified: 𰻝
    Traditional: 𰻞

    They were actually encoded in Unicode back in 2020!

    #Unicode #CJK #hanzi

  12. Well, I vote for Han unification of , and I rather think that more Chinese characters should have been unified (e.g., 高 & 髙, 產 & 産, 內 & 内). 🤷

  13. @timkmak
    For those can read #Hanzi
    Here is a article Peng wrote about Li when he died at 2020 🙏
    talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/

  14. @astigg1 in a twisted fate, I have never read The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi in #Hanzi but only discover it via Booker prize and read it in English.
    thebookerprizes.com/the-booker

  15. Question: Why does it seem that the #Taipei_Times (#台北時報) is unable type #Fu_Kun_chi's #Mandarin name (#傅崐萁)? If they type it at all, the 崐 is usually replaced by a question mark. 🤷🏽‍♂️
    #hanzi
    #漢字

  16. Question: Why does it seem that the () is unable type 's name ()? If they type it at all, the 崐 is usually replaced by a question mark. 🤷🏽‍♂️

  17. Question: Why does it seem that the #Taipei_Times (#台北時報) is unable type #Fu_Kun_chi's #Mandarin name (#傅崐萁)? If they type it at all, the 崐 is usually replaced by a question mark. 🤷🏽‍♂️
    #hanzi
    #漢字

  18. @OpenAlex @albertcardona omg I find myself so quickly and actually correct too, appreciate being about to find hyphenated #Hanzi names 😍😍😍

  19. Beautifully crafted BabelStone Han font, by Andrew West 魏安

    #BabelStone Han v. 15.1.3 is a free #Unicode #CJK #font with over 57,000 Han characters (#hanzi, #kanji, #hanja), and 62,061 Unicode characters in total. It is a Song/Ming style (宋体/明體) font, with glyphs modelled on the official character forms used in the People's Republic of China, and is primarily intended for writing Modern Standard #Chinese, Classical Chinese, and various Sinitic languages and dialects.

    🔗 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.htm

  20. @TerynceTeaches
    @MarkHanson
    @academicchatter
    I have not thought too much about the citation as more to do with identification difficulty I usually have when reading multiple #Hanzi names, becus I didnot learn to use romanised #pinyin so I even struggle to pronounce them, but it become alot easier when I see the Hanzi charaters, but I do think for Hanzi names it may be desirable to cite at full instead of just surname, for example KFChen et al instead of Chen et al?

  21. This is the character that represents the #Philippines in #Han (#Kanji #Hanja #Hanzi) script: 菲

    菲 can mean: humble, luxurious, unworthy, poor, fragrant, lush, meagre, scant.

    I guess that pretty much sums up the #Philippines? LOL.

    I mean:

    * We are humble, to the point that we look at everyone else as superior to us. (Be it in our daily lives, or the Philippines in comparison with other countries).

    * It is luxurious, for us locals, to live in the Philippines. (By 'luxurious', in Philippine English, it means 'expensive').

    * But, with all the political drama, we still are a poor country, and unworthy of blessings.

    * Yet, we do have 7,641 lush islands! No other country can beat that.

    * And even though the people's income is meagre and scant for our daily expenses, there is a unique fragrance that can only be found here, in the Pearl of the Orient Seas.

    # indeed. ^_^

  22. Seriously?! Who came up with representing “America” as “美” (beautiful) in #Han (#Kanji #Hanja #Hanzi) script?

  23. For those who want to look up #ChineseCharacters or #Kanji by drawing them, qhanzi.com is a fantastic site. I've found that it is even better than #GooglePinyin for recognizing chars. #Chinese #Japanese #Hanja #Mandarin #LearnChinese #LearnJapanese #langtwt #hanzi

  24. Bon, là, on est sérieusement plus dans les problèmes de haut de casse et bas de casse, le problème est de savoir où est ce foutu #caractère ! Il vaut mieux connaître l'ordre du #Kangxi par cœur. #Hanzi #Hanja #Kanji #HanTu #TypographicPrint