Étienne Fourmont
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Étienne Fourmont was a French Orientalist who served as professor of Arabic at the Collège de France and published grammars on the Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese languages.
Chinese grammar by Étienne Fourmont.
Chinese characters
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Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Of the four independently
Étienne Fourmont
…Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese languages. Although Fourmont is remembered as a pioneering sinologist who did careful and influential work on the nature of Chinese characters, his legacy is significantly tarnished by the fact that he earned his early reputation by stealing the work of Arcadius Huang, whom he had helped catalog…
Ox scapula inscribed with characters recording the result of divinations – dated c. 1200 BCE
The Shi Qiang pan, a bronze ritual basin bearing inscriptions describing the deeds and virtues of the first seven Zhou kings – dated c. 900 BCE
Page from a Southern Song woodblock edition (1265–1274) of the Collected Works of Han Yu. The Shicai Tang (世彩堂) edition is celebrated as a pinnacle of regular script typography in Chinese printing.
Ordinary handwriting on a lunch menu in Hong Kong. Here, 反 (fǎn) is being used as an unofficial short form of 飯 (fàn; 'meal') by omitting the latter's ⾷ ('eat') component.