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Tom Mazanec
@tommazanec.bsky.social
Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JAOS editor. Father of 2. eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec/
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A website that allows you to create your own 漢字 out of components/characters, in all kinds of combos. Here, for example, is a way to write 書不盡言 as a single character. This is what the inventors of the Tangut script must have felt like. zi.tools?secondary=ids@hushuo.bsky.social on Mastodon

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TMtommazanec.bsky.social

The phrase I squished into a single character means "script does not capture the fullness of language."

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HRrossisok.bsky.social

Haha I parsed that as 書盡言?不!

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CNcmbnugent.bsky.social

It's like a Chinese version of Xu Bing's English square word calligraphy!

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DHhushuo.bsky.social

Oh, this is a great choice. Now I think we should start writing all 成語 like this. Or, maybe not...

A nightmare character made up of 刻舟求劍
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Tom Mazanec
@tommazanec.bsky.social
Author, Poet-Monks (Cornell UP). Assoc prof at UC Santa Barbara. Premodern Chinese lit & religion, translation, digital humanities. JAOS editor. Father of 2. eastasian.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/thomas-mazanec/
411 followers263 following244 posts