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Tag Archives: characters
Students choose English, oracle bone characters for entrance exam essays
A student answers his college entrance exam essay question using oracle bone script. Another student answers his high school entrance exam essay in English.
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged characters, essays, gaokao, oracle bones, zhongkao
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City branding through increased literacy
Suining County, Jiangsu Province, has realized that attracting investors can be difficult when none of them can read the characters in its name.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing
Tagged branding, characters, Suining, Yu Guoming
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Simple arguments for character standards
Pan Qinglin proposes eliminating simplified characters. The Ministry of Education wants to standardize character mnemonics.
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged characters, CPPCC, Ministry of Education, Pan Qinglin, Sheng Dalin, Wang Gan
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Living with an obscure name
A woman named 马CHENG has an obscure character in her name. Her passport and rental contract are able to work with it, but predictably, the PSB has problems.
Posted in Video
Tagged characters, names, obscure characters, typography, video
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The parts that make up a home
A real estate ad builds the character 家 using strokes from other words.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing, Real Estate
Tagged advertising, characters, real estate ads
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Daily Telegraph hoaxed by spoof “character of the year” story
Telegraph suggests that intellectuals chose ‘chaos’ as China’s word of the year.
Posted in Foreign media on China
Tagged characters, Reference News, Telegraph
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Spring Festival wordplay
A BMW ad with numbers hidden in characters, and a Microsoft tool for making couplets.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing
Tagged Beijing Youth Daily, BMW, characters, hanzi, Microsoft
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Characters in the public interest
A PSA spot in The Beijing News listing 100 common writing errors.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing, Media and Advertising, Newspapers, Scholarship and education
Tagged characters, PSA, standards, The Beijing News, writing
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Acceptance comes for obscure characters
New IDs are now able to handle 32 obscure characters, but 199 still remain unaddressed.
Posted in Trends and Buzz
Tagged characters, typography
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Explicating harmony
From The Economic Observer, an analysis of the characters in “harmony” 和谐.
Posted in Trends and Buzz
Tagged characters, harmonious society, harmony, The Economic Observer
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