Title: P0: Learning Mandarin - round symbols [2024-12-19 Thu]

Here is the difference between:
- 口 kǒu - mouth, hole, open
- 日 rì - sun, day
- 曰 yuē - to say
- 厶 sī - private, selfish
蠡 #chinese #chineselanguage #chinesecharacters #learnchinese #mandarin

Why Japanese is far easier to learn than English, with one ‘notable’ exception

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/japanese-easier-than-english-with-one-exception

Thousands of years, Chinese characters have undergone intricate and dramatic transformations. Today, we may share certain common understandings, and their structures seem to follow a unified aesthetic standard. Yet, might the so-called “structural characteristics of Chinese characters” be nothing more than a historical accident?

Phantasm Sans does not claim to be an answer. It is a question, an inquiry, a search.

#typedesign #typeface #chinesecharacters #phantasm_sans #神黑

📔 'Chinese Characters' - a Sunway University Press book on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/book?vid=a18df955-1b5c-41d6-ad6b-8bd029ef8c6f

#ChineseCivilization #ChineseCharacters #CulturalHistory #ChineseLanguage #Linguistics