Character analysis

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23 November 2020

No regrets: about hui 悔

The character hui 悔 appears many times in the Zhouyi, the core text of the Book of Changes, and is often translated as ‘regret’. A student asked me if I could…

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2 November 2020

Etymology of Chinese characters, meaning and sound components (2)

Lotti replied to my article, and added a message from Hilary as well. I’ll address both Lotti’s reply and Hilary’s message in this video. I choose to reply by video because…

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25 October 2020

Etymology of Chinese characters, meaning and sound components (1)

In my The Mystery of the Text online course I talk about the etymology of Chinese characters, and how the majority of the Chinese characters are composed: there is a meaning component,…

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10 July 2020

Crossing the great river

In this video we are going to look at the phrase she da chuan 涉大川, ‘cross the great river’ and the early usage of the keywords from this phrase.

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14 September 2015

Zai 災 and its variant in the Shanghai Museum Manuscript of the Yijing

An interesting, personal and meaningful exploration of the character zai 災 and its variant in the Shanghai Museum Manuscript of the Yijing by my good friend Luis Andrade. http://www.yitoons.com/yiblog/2015/09/13/on-disaster-walking-staffs-and-the-yijing/

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