Comments on: Writing with Characters

By: Kellen

Kellen — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:06:36 +0000

Thanks Simon. I’ve found SimSun and SimSun Founder Extended work quite well for just about everything. Downloading the hanazono font now.

By: Simon Allan

Simon Allan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:00:28 +0000

http://fonts.jp/hanazono/ here you can find a free truetype font, works pretty good on linux and windows, don’t know about osx

By: Kellen

Kellen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:32:05 +0000

That’s the one to which I was referring, and it not showing is the problem. 伐 with the 口 radical doesn’t display in most fonts. Here’s a in image of what it’s supposed to look like for those interested.

http://www.zdic.net/zd/zi3/ZdicF0ZdicA0ZdicB2Zdic8E.htm

It ~~shows up up fine~~ doesn’t display in Pleco. There’s a pretty comprehensive font called SimSum-18030 that usually covers this stuff. That’s the one Pleco uses. Looking into others. I’m pretty sure I had one back before the latest hard drive wipe that would do it but no I don’t know which one it was.

By: Kaiwen

Kaiwen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:05:48 +0000

𠲎 this is the ‘va’ AFAIK. I found it on this site:
http://chenzhongbei.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!71073FCCBC6322!3202.entry

If you paste it into Wenlin, it displays fine. My version of Firefox just shows the unicode box.

By: Kellen

Kellen — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:02:15 +0000

I’m curious if the book with IPA you’re referring to is the purple and orange one with the cartoon foreigner with a giant nose talking to a dainty chinese girl in a qipao. That’s the one I have but forgot to bring it back to China with me. Anyway I remember the IPA it gave was pretty intense.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:14:48 +0000

Keep up the good work. I’m torn about Wu with characters, since my various material that I’m learning Shanghainese from varies from a great TV series with a character approach, a mediocre (English) “phrasebook” with an IPA approach, a Chinese language audio/text online course with… IPA/tones that actually make sense. When it comes down to it though, I’m awful with IPA, so the character approach is actually the easiest to blaze through and I feel like I’m learning a form of notation that has some immediate use in reading Shanghainese “fangyan” writing online.