July 28, 2010

illustration friday "Double"

Every Chinese character is an illustration. Each is a picture, each has a story.

Like this - The Chinese character for "Double" is "雙". The origin of the character was showing a hand holding two birds. Over thousands of years it is simplified and turn into "雙".


5 comments:

melissa said...

Thats really beautiful

poppylocke said...

Lovely!

Red Cat Cards said...

Brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!

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