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Ancient Scripts - Chinese
Chinese is an extremely ancient system of writing. What is even more amazing that it only went through relatively small amount of change through its 3500 years of evolution, which can be divided into 5 major stages.
ancientscripts.com/chinese.html

Beijing unveils Olympic symbols for 2008 Games
The Beijing Olympic Games organization committee released a set of symbols representing each of the sports for the 2008 Games on Monday, one day before its two-year countdown to the opening ceremonies.
chinadaily.com.cn/sports/2006-08/07/content_658582.htm

Chinese Symbols, Tattoo Symbol Guide
List of Chinese symbol characters and meanings.
chinatownconnection.com/chinese-symbols.htm

Frequently Asked Chinese Symbols - about.com
There are over 80,000 Chinese characters (symbols), but most of them are seldom used today. So how many Chinese characters do you need to know?
chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/character/bls_characters1.htm

China, Empire of the Written Symbol
In China, Empire of the Written Symbol, Lindqvist takes around 150 of the oldest and most central characters of written Chinese and uses them as the foundation for an introduction to Chinese culture.
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Chinese Character - wikipedia.org
The number of Chinese characters contained in the Kangxi dictionary is approximately 47,035, although a large number of these are rarely used variants accumulated throughout history. Studies carried out in China have shown that full literacy requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character
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Wiktionary
A collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations. Wiktionary is the lexical companion to the open-content encyclopedia Wikipedia.
en.wiktionary.org/

Feng Shui Prophet
Feng Shui and Geomancy is a science of buildings, land, and burial sites and it has more than 2000 years history, originally from China. Information on Taoism, Feng Shui, Chi and Trigrams. Offers a Feng Shui forum for discussion.
fengshuiprophet.com/gallery/

Free Chinese Symbols Collection
Free Chinese symbols clip-art collection for art design, web creation, and tattoo flash.
formosa-translation.com/chinese

Pictographic characters from the early stage of Chinese writing
Are Chinese symbols letters of an alphabet or are they images depicting objects?
logoi.com/notes/symbols.html

Chinese Character Dictionary
A Chinese character dictionary with look-up by English, pinyin, Cantonese pronounciation, and radical/stroke.
mandarintools.com/chardict.html
Get a Chinese Name   

Chinese Script and Language - omniglot.com
Information about written and spoken Chinese, including details of the Chinese script and pronunciation.
omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm

Symbolism in Chinese Fine and Applied Arts
The Five Bats, Butterfly, Chrysanthemum, Dragon, Lion, Mountains, Pearl, Peony, Jooi-i [Ruyi].
postcolonialweb.org/singapore/arts/symbolism/symbolismov.html

I Ching, the Book of Changes
Consult the Yijing (I Ching), famous chinese divination system with the sixty four hexagrams.
wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?l=Yijing

Chinese Symbol for Longevity
A long, healthy, prosperous life is one of the most admirable and highest goals of humanity. It only makes sense that the Chinese along with so many other cultures would establish many symbols to represent the facets of longevity.
whats-your-sign.com/chinese-symbol-for-longevity.html

Learn Chinese Characters
Online Chinese-English dictionary. Learn Chinese characters by understanding their origins and interconnections.
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Chinese Character Geneology   

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