Timeline for "Four-part" composition of characters
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| Dec 21, 2013 at 1:31 | comment | added | Joseph S WU | Japanese katakana's were Chinese characters used to show pronounciation, but later simplified to smallest significant parts in terms of efficiency. I myself also found that in writing practice, sometimes you can synthesize a pile of strokes (totally different) into a sign with its recognizable feature. Maybe that is something that makes Chinese handwriting personal and where the art of caligraphy begins. | |
| Dec 16, 2013 at 13:04 | answer | added | flow | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 4, 2012 at 16:04 | history | edited | Alenanno |
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| Apr 13, 2012 at 22:48 | answer | added | Don Kirkby | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 18:30 | vote | accept | Heitor Chang | ||
| Apr 13, 2012 at 18:25 | answer | added | Yang | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 17:48 | comment | added | Heitor Chang | This is really off-topic and off-language, but I have to mention the absurdity of マ being derived from = when 疑 clearly contains it. | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 17:27 | comment | added | Alenanno | I actually didn't notice that. But good. :P I was giving to you the history of the signs, so you can see where they come from. :) | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 17:27 | history | edited | Heitor Chang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2012 at 17:26 | comment | added | Heitor Chang | Oh yeah, I accidentally wrote hiragana :( Shame on me | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 17:25 | comment | added | Alenanno | Origin of Katakana :) | |
| Apr 13, 2012 at 16:47 | history | edited | Heitor Chang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2012 at 16:40 | history | asked | Heitor Chang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |