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A brief overview of the unearthed “Analects” documents in East Asia over the past 50 years by Chu, Daqing

“…From the perspective of newly unearthed inscriptions of the “Analects” of Confucius in East Asia over the past 50 years, it can be seen that it is a “living”…”
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Semantic classifiers (determinatives) and categorization in the ancient Egyptian writing system: Rules, list of classifiers, and studies by iClassifier on the Story of Sinuhe by Goldwasser, Orly, Soler, Susana

“…In the last two decades, we have extensively explored the semantic classifiers in ancient Egyptian scripts, showing how they encode the world from two…”
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Semantic classifiers in Guodian bamboo manuscripts: Reconstructing categories in the ancient Chinese mind by Xu, Yanru

“…Ancient Chinese scripts are one of the most complex writing systems in the world. Many graphs contain components referred to as unpronounced semantic…”
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iClassifier: A digital research tool for corpus-based classifier networks in complex writing systems by Harel, Haleli, Goldwasser, Orly, Nikolaev, Dmitry

“…This article presents the method applied by the iClassifier (©Goldwasser/Harel/Nikolaev) digital research tool for the study of the linguistic phenomenon of…”
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Reflecting the language of ancient civilizations: A diachronic transition of “爵” and contrastive analysis of 
Sino-Korean Chinese characters by Lee, Sunhee, Cho, Sungduk

“…This study focuses on the historical and cultural significance of the Chinese character “爵” (jue), reflecting the culture of the ancient Bronze Age, and…”
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Contextual disparities of “happiness” in Korean and Chinese: A quantitative analysis of “행복” and “幸福” by Im, Hyeon-yeol

“…This study investigates the contextual disparities in the meanings of the Korean Hanja word “행복 [hɛŋbok]” and the Chinese Hanzi word “幸福 [ɕiŋ51 fu35],” both…”
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A study of the core semantic features of the radical “zou 走” in Chinese 
characters by Kim, Sihyun

“…This study focuses on Chinese characters with the radical “zou 走,” positing that specific semantic features among zou’s semantic features play a central role…”
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The birth of the Chinese character ‘奈’: Reflections on semantic differentiation by Shin, Seri

“…In this study, ‘奈’, is the earliest character in Ancient Chinese to derive its meaning from a single character. It was derived and developed from the sounds…”
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Mythologizing of characters: Chinese character archaeology evidence of ancient Chinese totems related to “Yi (一)” cognate by Ha, Youngsam

“…This article endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which vestiges of mythology become embedded in the morphology of Chinese characters. It represents a…”
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A contrastive study on the semantic extension patterns of Chinese and Korean body part classifiers by Shin, Geunyoung

“…In the study of linguistics, body terms are words that denote parts of the human body and, grammatically, they are used as nouns. However, upon examining…”
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Reflections of Chinese character culture in nomenclature: A quantitative linguistic and geolinguistic examination of five-star hotel names in China by Synn, Asa

“…This study investigates the names of 801 five-star hotels across the Chinese mainland, quantitatively analyzing syllable length, geographical names (city and…”
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App-assisted learning of Chinese characters: Matching parts and radicals in structural templates by Wang, Haoshu, Sun, Pengyuan, Chan, Daniel KG

“…This study explores the effectiveness of the autonomous practice of Chinese characters through an app. Some 45 participants with no prior Chinese knowledge…”
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The universality of differentiation of word form and the theory of differentiation of Chinese characters by Zhu, Shengyu

“…The differentiation of word form or character is a universal phenomenon in language and writing systems, resulting from the evolution of the relationship…”
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The buy-one-get-(almost)-one-free effect of learning traditional or simplified Chinese characters by Lin, Su-Ching, Chen, Jenn-Yeu

“…A set of simplified Chinese characters (k = 995) and their traditional counterparts were presented to habitual traditional and simplified Chinese users,…”
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Analyzing radical positions and semantic relationships by Jang, Eun Young

“…This study analyzed 10 pairs of characters (a total of 20 characters) from the Shuowen Jiezi constructed with the same radicals. The analysis demonstrated that…”
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A lexical and contrastive analysis of zì 字 by Bottéro, Françoise

“…Today, one of the most essential Chinese linguistic terms related to writing, zì 字, is translated into English and other western languages as “character”. This…”
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The metonymic determinatives in Egyptian and Chinese writing by Chen, Yong sheng

“…A determinative, also known as a “classifier,” is an ideogram utilized within a phonogram-ideogram compound, a common feature in ideographic-phonographic…”
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A new explanation of “toubo (投博)” in the bronze mirror inscriptions of Han Dynasty by Kong, Dechao

“…The phrase “toubo (投博)” in “toubozhiming (投博至明)” was the abbreviation of “touhu 投壶” and “boxi 博戏” in the bronze mirror inscriptions. In the Han Dynasty, “touhu…”
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Several issues about distinguishing the physical object referring terms in bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties by Liu, Xingjun, Cao, Lihong, Jin, Wei

“…The determination of physical object referring terms in the bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties involves several critical considerations…”
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The metonymic determinatives in Egyptian and Chinese writing 1 by Chen, Yong sheng

“…A determinative, also known as a “classifier,” is an ideogram utilized within a phonogram-ideogram compound, a common feature in ideographic-phonographic…”
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