11/07/2012Shu shen (許慎, pinyin: Xǔ Shèn, ca. 58 C.E. – ca. 147 C.E.), the meaning of the character 人 was…
20/06/2012森 follows a concept of three pictographs of a tree (木, き, ki) combined in one character, and it emphasises…
09/05/2012a philologist of the Han dynasty (漢朝, pinyin: Hàn Cháo, 206 B.C. – 220 C.E.) is quite simple and straight…
24/04/2012The shape of the character 出 symbolises a step forward executed with vigour; each step starts from placing the heel…
12/04/2012the shape of 十 was based on the concept of a vertically oblong tool used for calculations (Figures 1 and…
08/04/2012Although the modern form of the character 手 may be somewhat misleading (6 fingers), the “hand" radical 扌 still resembles…
15/03/2012Characteristic of small seal script, note the circular movement of the brush tip at the beginning of each stroke, indicating…
12/03/2012we find a definition of 車, stating that it is a cart equipped with a seat(s) (human pulled carriage or…- 08/03/2012the symbolic meaning of the character 七, describing it as one of the sacred numbers (聖数, pinyin: shèngshù), which are…
01/03/2012耳 belongs to the 象形文字 (しょうけいもじ, shōkeimoji, i.e. set of characters of pictographic origin). It is a pictograph of a…
