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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
The phrase I squished into a single character means "script does not capture the fullness of language."
It's like a Chinese version of Xu Bing's English square word calligraphy!
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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