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are judged to have mastered about 6-7,000 of them, but some large dictionaries can contain as many as 60,000 characters.
硬度向倉心也敢喊匠
名由食多无自 乐我哭悲之心 ?相心多伦赵 美鴉五心小学
A page from a medieval Chinese manuscript.
Bamboo strips (ca. 300 BCE
The Bamboo inscription reads: ...form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form, emptiness is nothing but
form, form is nothing but emptiness... http://www.logoi.com/notes/symbols_alphabet.html
China was an isolated civilization and trade did not affect its literature. In spite of its difficult scripts they developed a large literature and religion of their own.
