KanjiCulture

— the common language of China, Japan and korea —

Archive for February, 2011

The Character of Characters

The Character of Characters In the last post, Chinese and Latin Scripts Compared, I introduced the Chinese script by comparing it to our own Latin script, based on Professor Peter A. Boodberg’s essay, “Some Basic Grammatonomic Characteristics of the Chinese Script” in his hand- printed Cedules from a Berkeley Workshop in Asiatic Philology, 1954, and [...]

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