The Preservation and Digitalisation of Matrices of Regular Traditional Chinese Script and Related Fonts

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Jun-Fu Huang ◽  
Shang-Ching Yeh ◽  
Chi-Shu Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Casting Machine ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Printing Industry ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
National Science

Traditional Chinese characters are currently used in Taiwan (Republic of China), Hong Kong and Macau. They maintain the original form of the Chinese characters, which have great aesthetic value. When printing, removable types are used, which are cased according to ‘script matrices.’ Script matrices are sculptured based on handwritten Chinese characters, and present the beauty of Chinese characters. The ‘Fengxing’ and ‘Rixing’ matrices are the only two remaining regular Chinese script matrices in all of Taiwan; they are a testament to the history Taiwan's printing industry. To preserve the ‘Fengxing’ matrices, with a total number of 3,780, we first recast the lead types from those matrices held at the National Science and Technology Museum (NSTM) by the Type-Casting Machine at the Rixing Type Foundries. The fonts of the lead types were printed by the Typographic Printing Press. The lead type, matrix and font from a regular traditional Chinese script were collated and then digitised by digital camera, another process used for their preservation. The lead types, matrices and digitalised copies were then stored and preserved in the NSTM. After the ‘Fengxing’ and ‘Rixing’ fonts will have been compared and analyzed, they will be combined, and a regular font for all commonly used Chinese characters (as designated by the Ministry of Education) will thereby be created. In this way, we will functionally preserve regular traditional Chinese type script and will give this representative script a new life in the digital age.

Bodily Dasein and Chinese Script Components

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwan Tze-wan
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Constitutive Principle ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractIn the Shuowen, one of the earliest comprehensive character dictionaries of ancient China, when discussing where the Chinese characters derive their structural components, Xu Shen proposed the dual constitutive principle of “adopting proximally from the human body, and distally from things around.” This dual emphasis of “body” and “things around” corresponds largely to the phenomenological issues of body or corporeality on the one hand, and lifeworld on the other. If we borrow Heidegger’s definition of Dasein as Being-in-the world, we can easily arrive at a reformulation of Xu Shen’s constitutive principle of the Chinese script as one that concerns “bodily Dasein.” By looking into various examples of script tokens we can further elaborate on how the Chinese make use not only of the body in general but various body parts, and how they differentiate their life world into material nature, living things, and a multifaceted world of equipment in forming a core basis of Chinese characters/components, upon which further symbolic manipulation such as “indication”, “phonetic borrowing”, semantic combination, and “annotative derivation”, etc. can be based. Finally, examples will be cited to show how in the Chinese scripts the human body (and its parts) might interact with other’s bodies (and their parts) or with “things around” (whether nature, living creatures, or artifacts) in various ways to cover the social, environmental, ritual, technical, economical, and even intellectual aspects of human experience. Bodily Dasein, so to speak, provides us with a new perspective of understanding and appreciating the entire scope of the Chinese script.

Study on Rheo-Diecasting for In Situ Synthesized Mg2Si/AM60 Composites

2011 ◽  
Vol 383-390 ◽  
pp. 707-711
Author(s):  
Hong Yan ◽  
Yong Hu ◽  
Xiao Quan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Die Casting ◽  
Casting Machine ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Matrix Composites ◽  
Forming Process ◽  
Magnesium Matrix ◽  
Magnesium Matrix Composites ◽  
Mechanical Stirring ◽  
Semi Solid

Magnesium alloys have high specific strength, specific stiffness, excellent thermal conductivity and casting properties, which have a great prospects development in the industry, However, its low plasticity and ductility limited its application. Magnesium matrix composites can effectively improve its performance. Magnesium alloy die-casting is the main forming process, the conventional high-pressure die-casting (HPDC) defects in multi-cavity type, easy to volume gas, non-heat-treated. Compared with HPDC, the rheo-diecasting (RDC) process has been greatly developed for near-net shape components. In this paper, Mg2Si /AM60 composites is fabricated by in-situ synthesis and semi-solid magnesium matrix composites which are rheoformed in the die-casting machine are prepared by mechanical stirring. The results indicate that the microstructure of composites is non-dendritic and Chinese script type Mg2Si are fine distributed. The fundamental morphology of microstructure by HPDC is dendrite and liquid-phase distributed between dendrite irregularly. The RDC samples have close-to-zero porosity, less segregation, the most of semi-solid of microstructure in rheo-diecasting is spherical or as-spherical structure.

Analyzing graphic structure of phono-semantic characters: A Vietnamese method of teaching and learning Chinese characters

2020 ◽  
pp. 251385022094539
Author(s):  
Trọng-Dương Trần
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Good Method ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Teaching Chinese

From the perspective of graphological structure, this article examines Vietnamese methods of teaching and learning Chinese characters by analyzing their phonetic and semantic elements. The selected sample for the survey is taken from characters collected from Thiều Chửu’s Dictionary of Chinese Script with Sino-Vietnamese Reading—the most useful dictionary in Vietnam in nearly 100 years. The resulting statistics reveal that, out of the 14,950 characters in this dictionary, there are 931 phonetic elements in which 455 are strong ones, producing 10–20 phono-semantic characters. This article argues that analyzing the relationship between the characters and their phonetic elements read in Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation is a good method for Vietnamese people to teach and learn Chinese characters. The method of learning Chinese characters has been applied in teaching Chinese characters for more than 1000 monks and nuns at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Hanoi. The experimental results show that students were able to improve their vocabulary very quickly, and could apply this to learning and teaching Chinese characters.

scholarly journals KAJIAN FUNGSI ORNAMEN RUMAH TRADISIONAL KAMPUNG ARAB AL-MUNAWWAR

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mukhsin Patriansyah ◽  
Yayan Hariansyah
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Rule Out

The long journey of ornamental activity decorates the ancestors of South Sumatra who have given birth to various kinds of ornaments which are a reflection of their culture and natural environment to get outside influences through animism and dynamism, Hinduism and Islamization. The transition of the era has a major contribution to the ornamental activities of the ancestors of South Sumatra who experienced development and change. Islamic teachings have a major influence on the function and creation of traditional house ornaments in the Al-Munawwar village of Palembang, this can be seen from the motifs used which are sourced from nature. In its realization, the motif has been stylized in shape, so that the ornaments produced differ greatly from the original form. Arab Al-Munawwar villagers use ornaments to add aesthetic value to their residential buildings. The use of these ornaments can be seen from several sides such as doors, windows, ventilation, walls, room dividers, poles and so on. Does not rule out the possibility in the form of traditional house ornaments Arab Al-Munawwar village stored messages and meanings that are interesting to explore. The study in this study focuses more on aesthetic values, with the aim of tracing the structure that builds and expresses the symbolic values implied in the traditional house ornaments of the Al-Munawwar Arabian village of Palembang. The research method used is a qualitative method, with analytic descriptive analysis. The data is then identified, classified, selected, then analyzed and interpreted according to the text and context. AbstrakMasyarakat Kampung Arab Al-Munawwar memanfaatkan ornamen untuk menambah nilai estetis dari bangunan tempat tinggal mereka. Penggunaan ornamen ini bisa dilihat dari beberapa sisi seperti pintu, jendela, ventilasi, dinding, penyekat ruangan, tiang dan lain sebagainya. Tidak menutup kemungkinan di dalam wujud ornamen rumah tradisional Kampung Arab Al-Munawwar tersimpan pesan dan makna yang manarik untuk di telusuri. Kajian dalam penelitian ini lebih menitikberatkan pada nilai estetika, dengan tujuan untuk menelusuri struktur yang membangun dan mengungkapkan nilai simbolik yang tersirat dalam ornamen rumah tradisional Kampung Arab Al-Munawwar Palembang. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif, dengan analisis deskriptif analitik. Data tersebut kemudian diidentifikasikan, diklasifikasi, diseleksi, selanjutnya dianalisis dan diinterpretasikan sesuai teks dan konteksnya.

Story of the Eastern Chamber: Dilemmas of Vernacular Language and Political Authority in Eighteenth-Century Chosŏn

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-62
Author(s):  
Sixiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Chinese Script ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Royal Authority ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Choson Korea ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Korean Hangul

AbstractThe earliest extant playscript in Korea stands as an enigma. It is an anonymous work written to celebrate a wedding arranged by King Chŏngjo. Called Story of the Eastern Chamber, the play evokes not only the Chinese Story of the Western Chamber through titular reference but also the Chinese vernacular tradition as a whole. Written entirely in Chinese characters, the text weaves vernacular Korean words into the syntax of Chinese baihua vernacular, an unusual form which upsets the conventional diglossic binary of literary Chinese (hanmun) and vernacular Korean (hangŭl). This essay situates the text in a late Chosŏn discourse of linguistic difference marked by pronounced anxieties about the temporal and spatial contingency of language. Some late Chosŏn writers, including the text’s putative author, Yi Ok, embraced difference to carve out a localized literary space in Chosŏn Korea. For King Chŏngjo, it threatened the textual foundation of royal authority. Eastern Chamber spoke to these dilemmas by imagining a linguistic space where vernacular Korean usage could be represented as a literary language in the Chinese script, reconciling kingly authority with local specificity.

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