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The 45 pages that link to Chinese characters, each with the reason it gives.

• Chinese calligraphyNarrower topic: Calligraphers give these characters visual form while preserving their written identity.

• Oracle bone scriptNarrower topic: Oracle bone signs are the earliest extensive stage in the documented history of Chinese characters.

• Seal scriptNarrower topic: Seal script is one historical style in the long development of these characters.

• Wang XizhiNarrower topic: Their structure gives calligraphers a visual form to balance, vary, and animate.

• Regular scriptNarrower topic: Regular script organizes these characters into consistent, recognizable forms.

• Traditional Chinese charactersNarrower topic: Traditional forms are one set of forms within the broader Chinese character system.

• Classical Chinese proseNarrower topic: The character-based script preserves the written forms through which classical prose was transmitted.

• Chữ NômNarrower topic: Chữ Nôm borrowed these forms and conventions as its visual and structural foundation.

• Radical (Chinese characters)Narrower topic: Radicals are assigned to individual characters rather than to words or sentences.

• HanjaNarrower topic: Hanja are Korean uses of this broader character system.

• Ouyang XunNarrower topic: Their complex forms gave Ouyang Xun’s precision and structural balance their subject.

• ZiyeNarrower topic: The spelling Ziye represents the characters 子夜 rather than an English word.

• JiNarrower topic: The character 寺 entered Japanese writing through the broader history of Chinese characters.

• Xu ShenNarrower topic: Xu Shen analyzed the forms and meanings of these characters.