Etymology of Chinese characters

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Kanji: 見 | Beyond Calligraphy

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Kanji: 犬 | Beyond Calligraphy

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Kanji: 五 | Beyond Calligraphy

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Now that I think about it, wouldn't it be easier to make the encyclopedia "open" to any english speaker calligrapher ( such as in a wiki, so anyone could contribute and therefore speeding up the creation of content?).

This method tends to work, because if someone makes a mistake, some else fixes it...

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Originally Posted by Nameless

Now that I think about it, wouldn't it be easier to make the encyclopedia "open" to any english speaker calligrapher ( such as in a wiki, so anyone could contribute and therefore speeding up the creation of content?).

This method tends to work, because if someone makes a mistake, some else fixes it...

You need a calligraphy knowledge to research those topics, and the books about character etymology in Japanese are in some percent unreadable even for native speakers. Calligraphy vocabulary is like legal jargon, if you do not study it, you will not know how to interpret it. Opening this to the public would make a complete mess, and I do not have the time to fix it.

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This is by far the most complex article on the subject of Chinese characters etymology that I have written o far. It took me over 20h worth of research and writing, including multiple consultations with the editors of Beyond Calligraphy.

Kanji: 左 | Beyond Calligraphy