Really weird sinographs, part 4

Language Log 2018-12-09

Summary:

A video introducing 70 obscure Chinese characters (shēngpì zì 生僻字): The person singing the song seems to be inordinately proud of these strange, difficult characters.  He says things like "each stroke is a story" and invokes "5,000 years of history", neither of which is accurate.  He exclaims, "let the whole world recognize them" and exalts, […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=40930

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

12/09/2018, 21:12

Date published:

12/09/2018, 18:32