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Does this building on chinese painting exist for real ? May the text which come along be of any help?
I am wondering if this building on a chinese painting is for real ? Or just if something close exists... it may be on an island and is rather cubic... I have nearly zero knowledge of chinese ...
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Reconstruction of Old Chinese "少"
There are many characters that have the initial "m-" and contain "少" as a phonetic element at the same time, such as 妙, 秒, 眇, 竗, etc. I thought this was a good reason to judge that ...
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How to type these old and rare Chinese characters?
I've tried to google these old Chinese characters using their closest approximations but still haven't found out any. I want to find these characters so that I can copy and paste them instead of ...
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What is the oldest retracable meaning for the character/word 臾?
臾 (yu2) in classical Chinese means "for a while".
I assume "for a while" was not the original meaning this character was associated with in the time when it came, by what mysterious brain activity ...
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