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

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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.

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Chinese Characters

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d2773173e54"> <i>Chinese Characters</i> presents the evolution, configuration and artistic aspects of Chinese characters, to better understand the beauty of the Chinese language and appreciate the cultural information it conveys. This book is part of the Chinese Civilisation series which seeks to inform, inspire and ignite curiosity about one of the world's oldest civilisations. </p>

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The featured Wiki of the Day for Saturday, 24 May 2025, is Chinese characters.

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featured Wiki of the Day Episode 2941

Something interesting from the recent past. An illustrator who sells persimmons bought four-character for my ShiziLishu柿子隶书(柿子:persimmon. 隶书: a kind of script from ancient China), and we wished each other persimmon sales.☺️
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Character Amnesia in China

During a visit to Beijing many years ago, I was having lunch with three PhD students in the Chinese Department at Peking University, all of whom were native speakers of Chinese. I happened to have a cold that day and was trying to write a brief note to a friend to cancel an appointment that […]

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