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How to Decipher & Read Variant Characters in Ancient Chinese Calligraphy Models

Free Chinese calligraphy model downloads www.9610.com How to decipher and read variant Chinese characters in Chinese calligraphy ancient models 解讀書法異體字釋文Links used to verify 辨識漢碑韓仁銘中的”幸”字bbs.cangcn.com www.9610.com (free Chinese calligraphy dictionary) A page from 說文解字www.flickr.com According to 說文解字, the character “with 大written on top and 羊written on bottom” (pronounced as 達) refers to a baby lamb 小羊, or to be more exact, “a baby lamb just born.” The character “with 大written on top and 羊written on bottom” is referred to as “the subject character” hereafter since I don’t know how to type it and it’s not found in many Chinese dictionaries except 說文解字. The subject character refers to “a baby lamb just born.” 假借jiǎjiè “borrowing; making use of” Jiajie are characters that are “borrowed” to write another homophonous or near-homophonous morpheme. Some linguists say that the subject character is a Jiajie character of 達. According to Mr. 馬紹文and other resources, the subject character in the Lishu stele of 韓仁銘is deciphered as 幸. I will need to look for more resources as why the subject character would be interpreted as 幸. Chinese etymology is a very complex subject and often involves with many schools and arguments; it’s not my specialized field of knowledge. According to NJ Star software, there is 羍pronounced as ta4, but there is no meaning provided for this character 羍in the software as of 2011. Seal Scripts and Clerical …