Dive into the fascinating world of Chinese characters with Hari and Kimi! Discover the incredible history of this logographic writing system, one of only four independently invented writing systems still in use today. Journey from its origins in oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang dynasty to its evolution through various script styles like clerical and regular script. Learn how characters generally represent morphemes, units of meaning, unlike alphabets that represent sounds. Explore how characters spread across the Sinosphere, adapting to write languages like Japanese (kanji), Korean (hanja), and Vietnamese (chữ Hán). Uncover the principles behind their structure, including pictographs, indicatives, compound ideographs, and the most common type, phono-semantic compounds. Find out how modern technology, from typewriters to computers, adapted to handle thousands of distinct characters. Don't miss this insightful look into a writing system with over three millennia of documented history and its enduring cultural impact!

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Join Hari and Kimi on Wiki Featured - Stories from Wikipedia's Daily Featured Articles as they dive into the complex and controversial story of Ezra Pound. A pivotal figure in modernist poetry, Pound's life saw him hobnob with literary giants like James Joyce and W. B. Yeats, publish influential works, and champion new artistic movements like Vorticism. But his path took a dark turn as he embraced fascism and antisemitic ideas, culminating in wartime radio broadcasts for Italy that led to an indictment for treason. Explore the aftermath, including his time in a disciplinary training center and psychiatric hospital, the uproar surrounding the Bollingen Prize awarded for The Pisan Cantos, and the enduring debate over his legacy. It's a fascinating, unsettling look at genius intertwined with troubling ideology.

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Join Hari and Kimi on Wiki Featured as they delve into Mary Cassatt's striking 1878 painting, "In the Loge". Explore how this Impressionist masterpiece captures the tension of gender and gaze in 19th-century society. Discover why a woman in a loge, confidently observing the scene while being observed herself, was a powerful statement on female independence and evolving social norms. Get ready to see this iconic work in a new light!

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