With my renewal effort to expand my non-English follows on Mastodon, I got reminded of "惑星": #Japanese way to describe Planet. Apparently it means "wandering stars" as we know the trajectory of planets is not so regular. But in #Chinese 惑 has a meaning of attractive, so since my youth I always feel that is rather romantic way to think about planet: an attractive star! Wondering what are the other #Hanzi language word for planet? eg #Korean and #Vietnamese ?
The red sticky poster are part of New Year celebrations deco. We stick it on the door and usually with #Hanzi saying things one wishes for.
in this particular one
蟒蟒壯壯 mǎng mǎng zhuàng zhuàng literally meant "python python strong strong"
as it will be year of snake, it makes sense.
but the joke or the fun is that it is a play of phonene as
莽莽撞撞 is a common phrase pronounces exactly the same but means hot-headed; rash; impetuous.
Via @unseenjapan this is amazing again showcase how #Hanzi is a common culture root for East Asian #Ruisist counties
https://mstdn.jp/@unseenjapan/113676321901905397
Inspired by @chu about #Hanzi that is difficult to translate:
I feel the first come to mind is really 孝
It is a word that shapes all #Ruism family relation since young age.
Recent Pixar animation "Turning Red" is tackling this very concept in the story line: how do you practise 孝 without losing yourself? Domee Shi did a very good job, and Sandra Oh as the mother is just apt! Worth watching! (Oh being Korean decent doesn't dilute this concept, as most Korean would obey 孝 even more rigidly )
The latest version of the free BabelStone Han font (v.16.0.2), by Andrew West (魏安), has just been released. It includes more than 60,000 CJK unified ideographs, and supports a provisional set of 2,452 ideographic variation sequences (IVS) for 1,196 characters.
https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/BSH_IVS.html
In other words the venerable biáng character of Biangbiang noodle fame now shows up by default on iOS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles#Chinese_character_for_bi%C3%A1ng
Simplified: 𰻝
Traditional: 𰻞
They were actually encoded in Unicode back in 2020!
Well, I vote for Han unification of #Unicode, and I rather think that more Chinese characters should have been unified (e.g., 高 & 髙, 產 & 産, 內 & 内). 
@timkmak
For those can read #Hanzi
Here is a article Peng wrote about Li when he died at 2020 
https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1389914
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@astigg1 in a twisted fate, I have never read The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi in #Hanzi but only discover it via Booker prize and read it in English.
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/wu-ming-yi
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Question: Why does it seem that the #Taipei_Times (#台北時報) is unable type #Fu_Kun_chi's #Mandarin name (#傅崐萁)? If they type it at all, the 崐 is usually replaced by a question mark. 
#hanzi
#漢字
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