Comparison between Chinese Characters being used in China and Those Characters Developed and Used as Unique to Korea based on the Six-Principles Theory of Character Formation

The pictograph is the core of ancient Chinese characters. In recent years, Chinese characters, especially the ancient oracle-bone inscriptions and seal characters, are often adopted in logo design in China. This article analyzes the concise thought adopted in ancient character-creating, such as “highlighting characteristics”, “simplifying”, and “less for more”, and probes into the application of such ancient thought with modern design cases, in an attempt to establish evaluation standards for the integration of culture and art.

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Stroke systems in Chinese characters: A systemic functional perspective on simplified regular script

Semiotica ◽

10.1515/sem-2015-0111 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (218) ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Xuanwei Peng

Keyword(s):

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Point System ◽

Chinese Characters ◽

Writing Systems ◽

Character Formation ◽

Line System ◽

Preliminary Attempt ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Functional Perspective ◽

Chinese Writing

AbstractThis article makes a preliminary attempt to account for the stroke systems of Chinese characters in simplified regular script. The framework utilized is the three meta-functions in Systemic Functional Linguistics. The description observes the cases from the perspectives of the experiential, appraisal (aesthetic), and thematic semiosis of strokes and their constitutional segments to figure out the relevant systems: the line system and the point system. This process witnesses comparisons to seek, in brief though, the traces and origins of stroke development along evolution, and hence the straightening of lines and squaring of character formation. This is the first step towards a rank model of Chinese writing, the whole project of which will highlight a way to study other writing systems in the semiotic respect.

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Supplemental Material for Visual Short-Term Memory and Attention: An Investigation of Familiarity and Stroke Count in Chinese Characters

Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition ◽

10.1037/xlm0000950.supp ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Short Term Memory ◽

Chinese Characters ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Visual Short Term Memory ◽

Memory And Attention

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The Sogdian envoy Maniach and his namesakes in China

Acta Orientalia ◽

10.1556/062.2020.00008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (2) ◽

pp. 187-197

Author(s):

Wang Ding

Keyword(s):

Chinese Characters ◽

Written Form ◽

Chinese Court

AbstractChinese sources document foreign names with phonetic transcriptions and render them in Chinese characters with close, or at least approximate, sound value. Among the Sogdians who were active at the Chinese court of the 6th century there were two persons named He Zhuruo and An Weiruo respectively. The etymology of both names can now be tentatively identified with Maniach, the name which was recorded in a Byzantine source, being that of a Sogdian envoy to Constantinople. Hence the original written form of Zhuruo and Weiruo can be restored with the spelling Moruo. The reason for these misspellings goes back to the graphic similarity of the concerned characters. Some further emendations of similar kinds are also proposed.

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