hanzi

Today's edition of Hanzi of the day explores the power of logography when it comes to... profanities!

Thanks to me unexpectedly* contracting Covid on my trip abroad and having my holiday reduced to a confinement in a very expensive hotel on the equator, Hanzi of the day

Hey guys! In those dark times, let's talk about tattoos, branding and blackness. Today's character 黑 hēi has a simple, straightfoward meaning: black. Its origin however is a little more

Hey guys! In these dark times, it's good to remember the famous English saying: In the land of the blind, the no-eyed-man is king! Or something like that. Anyways, I

Hey everybody! Today, as the world is reopening, most of us are going to roam through the mythical battlefields known as outside world in order to pursue arbitrary quests called

Hey guys. It has been too long. Because. Real life. And lack of imagination. But as one real life egagement came to an end, another blog post comes up. Today

What does everybody like? That's right, money. What symbolises money? Gold...

Hey guys! It's been a while since I last did a Hanzi-of-the-day, so today I present you with the... Fear of Ghosts. Since the dawn of time people have feared

Hey Guys! In this hot summer day we are looking towards some refreshing light breeze... Or more in general, towards some wind... Today's character 風 fēng is a phono-semantic character

Hey everyone... Again. I kind'a forgot about my blog, which brings us to the next character of the day, to forget, or as the Chinese say, the death of the

Hey everybody! The New Year has arrived, most of us have consumed a month's worth of food in the span of a week, and now it's time for another character

Hey everybody! It's been a few busy weeks for me, so I let that blog thing slack... Apologies. Let's see if I can get everyone's attention back with our favourite

Hey guys! Another day, another joyous journey across the magical world of pictures with arbitrary meanings! Well today is different. Today we are going to be talking about a real

Hey everyone! Thank you all for the positive responses to my blog! It gives me the illusion that by writing words on the Internet I will find a purpose, or

Yo, whazzup! For the longest time I have been fascinated by logographic writings, even before I knew what they were called. As a child I spent a lot of time