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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 9 of 13 15 August 2012 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
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In that case, check out Chinese Etymology, where you can
get a graphical history of a written character all the way back to its first appearance. There are also explanations of the reasoning behind the creation of the character, which might help, but is not necessarily accurate (the author of the site is not a scholar). (Look in the comments of this article for a discussion on what to call this reasarch as "etymology" is not quite accurate, by the way.) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6380 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 13 16 August 2012 at 4:12pm | IP Logged |
Here is a copy of the scan:
There is a bigger version at: scan. Unfortunately, the quality of the scan isn't great. I'll try rescanning it tomorrow. Edited by newyorkeric on 16 August 2012 at 5:09pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4869 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 11 of 13 19 August 2012 at 11:06pm | IP Logged |
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You might like this site (chineseideographs.com) which has 2 PDFs on "Learning Chinese Characters - an Ideographic Approach" available (ignore the popup). I only started learning characters for Korean and use chinese-characters.org, which also usually gives etymology notes (which are more or less useful). Edited by druckfehler on 19 August 2012 at 11:07pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 12 of 13 20 August 2012 at 12:00am | IP Logged |
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newyorkeric, no need to re-scan – I can read that well enough to tell that it's quite close to what I was imagining. Definitely worth looking into, thanks so much for the scan!
druckfehler, thank you for the links, I'm bookmarking those. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Fiveonefive Diglot Groupie Japan Joined 5694 days ago 69 posts - 88 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Swedish | Message 13 of 13 20 August 2012 at 10:32pm | IP Logged |
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Does anyone know what sources Henshall used for his kanji book? Is there any similar body of work published covering hanzi specifically?
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