The Wubi Effect
Radiolab
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The Chinese Character Typewriter
Professor Wong believed that if you could just figure out what the atoms of Chinese characters were, the components of characters, like a shape alphabet. He wanted people to be able to quote unquote spell Chinese characters, not by sound, but by shape. The character for River, Jiang, which looks like a capital I with three dashes to its left, two near the top and one near the bottom is actually the character for work.
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