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chaz47
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 Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:53 am Post subject: getting a degree in Hanja (Chinese characters) |
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Does anyone know if this is possible? My undergraduate was a BFA in Graphic Design so I could possibly segue from that into an MA in Chinese characters... but definitely not an MA in Chinese. The editor of my Hanja Dictionary did one at USC (I'm assuming that means University of Southern California?).
While I've got the attention of any learned Hanja buffs... what's a good online source for finding obscure Hanja?
I know of these two so far:
www.zhongwen.com (not "Hanja" but "Hanzi" ... I know)
and found this one tonight...
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Korean/Hanja/%E3%85%88
but most of the characters are only tiny tiny unicode (?).
In particular I'm looking for a character I just found on wiktionary... the sound in compound is 레/네, that means "spiral shell". |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:24 am Post subject: Re: getting a degree in Hanja (Chinese characters) |
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| chaz47 wrote: |
| Does anyone know if this is possible? My undergraduate was a BFA in Graphic Design so I could possibly segue from that into an MA in Chinese characters... but definitely not an MA in Chinese. |
My gut reaction here is to advise you to put down the crack pipe. Maybe I'm off-base here, but I'd be incredibly surprised if you can get an MA in hanzi/hanja/kanji without actually learning Chinese/Korean/Japanese. I don't know. I mean, how many do you already read? Here's the homepage for the USC Chinese department - http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/newweb/home.htm - maybe they can point you in the direction of the Chinese Characters department.
Here's your spiral shell hanja - 螺. If you don't like the tiny tiny unicode characters on wiktionary try pressing ctrl +. Works for me.
If you like obscure characters maybe you'll be interested in this site for indigenous Japanese kanji: http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/9752/kokuji.html |
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