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Lijiang Times: Even in the Dongba script, sun+moon = bright!

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Sunday, 26 April 2009. Even in the Dongba script, sun moon = bright! The Dongba character for bright, bu˧. Is another ideogrammic compound, composed of the characters for sun and moon, both emitting light. This is if course, almost identical to the Chinese 明, with the sun on the left and the moon on the right, only in the Chinese there is no pictorial representation of the rays of light. Here they are together (Dongba on the left! Labels: chinese character classification. 27 April 2009 at 21:33. The Dong...

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Lijiang Times: Practical Uses of Dongbawen No. 1 - The Dongba's Phonebook

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Wednesday, 17 June 2009. Practical Uses of Dongbawen No. 1 - The Dongba's Phonebook. One of the common misconceptions about the Dongba script is that it's not really a living, working writing system. Phish! You can see here that the most common family name is Ho (Chinese 和 he), the Naxi character for which means 'ribs'. Ho is a traditional Naxi family name (and incidentally the name of all the Dongbas at the research institute). 5 July 2009 at 17:35. Heidi(Hong Xingyao), Rockville, MD. He Xiudong has tol...

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Lijiang Times: Quotes of the week, from Lijiang's local rag

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Thursday, 7 May 2009. Quotes of the week, from Lijiang's local rag. Normally, I don't like local newspapers. And I used to work for one. But the Lijiang Weekly News 丽江新闻周报 has a few things going for it - well, on reflection one thing going for it - it's short. Whilst the news is excruciatingly local - this week there is a full page story on how some people are illegally crossing at a cordoned off pedestrian crossing (. Dean of the China People's University and doctoral supervisor, professor Ji Baocheng.

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Lijiang Times: meat + fire = broil/roast

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Tuesday, 12 May 2009. Meat fire = broil/roast. Fresh from the Naxiology desk, comes the latest "interesting similarities between the Chinese and Dongba scripts" post. Time for another ideogrammic compound - this time its meat fire. Which, in Chinese, gives us 炙 zhi, and in Dongba we get bʏ˧. Dongba on the left! Here we can again see the slightly more explicit, less stylised "pictographic" Dongba character, but the elements in the Chinese character are easily identifiable too. 13 May 2009 at 11:39. What 8...

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Lijiang Times: On language and forested mountains

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Saturday, 2 May 2009. On language and forested mountains. I've been formally learning the Dongba script for about a month now; and it's been well worth the effort. It is, like Chinese, a very different. Language to anything I was previously familiar with, and it's full of unique words and expressions. While it's probably useless economically, and in a corporate environment (why does the very word corporate. Send shivers down my spine? The pronunciation is: sər ˧. Dzi ˧˩. Dʑy ˧˩. I love this character bec...

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Lijiang Times: The wonders of the Chinese bookshop

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Tuesday, 28 April 2009. The wonders of the Chinese bookshop. There is no greater pleasure than browsing in a Xinhua bookshop for hours on end. Every time I go into a bookshop in China, I'm struck by the sheer amount of things still left to read, but have no time to.古代经典很多，今天已不能人人尽读. On the other hand, the dearth of good second hand bookshops in China is a topic for another day. 12 September 2009 at 16:50. Also, if you like the bookshops in China youd love the ones in Taiwan! 28 September 2009 at 10:57.

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Lijiang Times: Heaven and earth

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Friday, 1 May 2009. Lesson one from Popular Dongba Script 通俗东巴文. This textbook is apparently the book that kids use when learning Naxi and Dongba script as an extra-curricular class in Lijiang. Naturally, it's not a popular class - but hey, if nobody learns it, then it's gone for good. The first three characters that make up the title are not read out). It's a short reading from a Dongba scripture: Heaven and earth. Written from left to right. The translation should go something like this:.

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Lijiang Times: June 2009

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Wednesday, 17 June 2009. Practical Uses of Dongbawen No. 1 - The Dongba's Phonebook. One of the common misconceptions about the Dongba script is that it's not really a living, working writing system. Phish! You can see here that the most common family name is Ho (Chinese 和 he), the Naxi character for which means 'ribs'. Ho is a traditional Naxi family name (and incidentally the name of all the Dongbas at the research institute). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Lijiang, Yunnan, China. View my complete profile.

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Lijiang Times: April 2009

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Tuesday, 28 April 2009. The wonders of the Chinese bookshop. There is no greater pleasure than browsing in a Xinhua bookshop for hours on end. Every time I go into a bookshop in China, I'm struck by the sheer amount of things still left to read, but have no time to.古代经典很多，今天已不能人人尽读. On the other hand, the dearth of good second hand bookshops in China is a topic for another day. Sunday, 26 April 2009. Even in the Dongba script, sun moon = bright! The Dongba character for bright, bu˧. Alexis Michaud, of th...