54/娑婆訶 此是恆河沙菩薩聳立鰲頭無邊法海也。 This is the Ganges River sand Bodhisattva, standing on the head of an Ao* [in] the boundless dharma ocean *ao: A kind of sea creature

A banner at Singapore's Dou Mu Gong 斗母宮, with a pair of couplets made [almost] entirely of triplographs: 日昍晶𣊭弄裡羡 月朋𦜳朤定乾坤

U+30020 ⿰丨{right of 水}: An archaic bamboo slip form of 刺 "thorn." Occurs in the article "When Red Pigeons Gathered on Tang's House," by Sarah Allan, in a transcription of a tale.

cursed transmitted form of 本 (lower right corner) from 龍龕手鑒

Chinese characters with radical 212 龍 [dragon] from the 海篇心鏡 books.google.com/books?id=erlL9…

饕餮龍蝦餐; EXTERMINATE CAPITALISM LOBSTER PACKAGE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish…

Rachel is resting Nick Hun concludes his account(written in 2003)that 'the art is still alive,albeit in secret'. This is no longer accurate archive.org/details/chines… charismatic malaysian astrologers run huge seminars on the subject,which attendees have to pay princely sums for joeyyaponline.com/qma2024

AWWWWW YISSSSSS THE LONGKAN SHOUJIAN THE DRAGONSHRINE HANDMIRROR THAT ANCIENT LIAO DYNASTY CHINESE DICTIONARY WITH ALL THE WEIRD CHARACTER FORMS UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (→ Bluesky) 波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp zev handel Celestial Phineas

I think people sleep on how cool is the fact that the rotation was important until like 3 last centuries Like, the whole 朋 was normally sligtly rotated right (it doesn't have 月 or 肉), and 山* in 耑 was rotated too!

A new Wei stone classics text (尚書・洛誥) unearthed in 2020.09 (I couldn't find a better quality, sorry) There are 29 new transmitted ancient (古文) forms total!

Love these old rants about glyphs. From 靖康緗素雜記 "Miscellaneous notes on coarse paper from the Jingkang (1126-1127) era", by Huang Chaoying 黃朝英 (Northern Song) 倚卓 "On 'chair' and 'table'" The translation is in the thread ↓ /0

Some important notes from 陳琦, 2025. 甲骨文舊釋“網”之字當改釋爲“羅”. (第二屆出土文獻語言文字學術研討會論文集, 2025.04.25, pp. 100-108) tl;dr: There is no evidence 网 was ever used for {網} "net" until Eastern Han; it was created only for the word {羅} "(bird) net". /1

Just read the June 12th New York Times article: “Dalai Lama Nears 90, and Exiled Tibetans Fear for Their Future.” As a Tibetan, I must speak out. This report contains factual distortions, historical erasures, and misleading language that do a disservice to the truth and the

Chu wooden slip unearthed in Xinzhuang 辛莊 village (Yeyi 葉邑 town, Ye 葉 county, Pingdingshan 平頂山 city, Henan 河南 province) in 2012 and first researched in 2024.12 (李寧 et al. 河南平頂山辛莊一號戰國楚墓出土木牘初步研究)

"最好还是谨慎对待" Best thing so far on the new inscription supposedly recording a Qin expedition to "Kunlun" to collect immortality medicines. I don't know who the author, Yu Xiangyue 郁翔越, is. Does anyone know? news.ifeng.com/c/8k7r4zR7hyb

The Chinese say that if you haven't memorized large chunks of texts, then you simply don't have enough "ink in your stomach," which means you can't write - you don't know enough to use allusions, to play with intertextuality, to be in dialogue w existing lit.

“If this inscription is actually fake, I'd happily honor the forger as my teacher." 如果此刻石真是作伪，我倒愿意拜作伪者为师。 Fighting words from Liu Zhao 劉釗, Director of the Center for Excavated Texts and Palaeography at Fudan). mp.weixin.qq.com/s/_AlEKj7NfDIi…

I agree, at least as far as there being a difference between “I read it,” and studying it extensively to the point where you can quote or paraphrase from it with ease. The latter is where true understanding, improved writing, and reasoning abilities can be obtained.

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