Renhao Pei

Renhao Pei

Doctoral Researcher at TurkuNLP & ELLIS PhD Student

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Parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters

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There are many nice parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters, although the ‘modern’ Chinese character has become less pictographic and we need to look at its form in the Oracle Bone Script.

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Parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters

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There are many nice parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters, although the ‘modern’ Chinese character has become less pictographic and we need to look at its form in the Oracle Bone Script.

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A Finnish-Manchu cognate

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An interesting Finnish-Manchu cognate: the Finnish word hiiri “mouse”, from Proto-Uralic *šiŋere, is a cognate to the Manchu word singgeri “mouse”, from Proto-Tungusic: *siŋere.

historical linguistics

A Finnish-Manchu cognate

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An interesting Finnish-Manchu cognate: the Finnish word hiiri “mouse”, from Proto-Uralic *šiŋere, is a cognate to the Manchu word singgeri “mouse”, from Proto-Tungusic: *siŋere.

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A Finnish-Manchu cognate

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An interesting Finnish-Manchu cognate: the Finnish word hiiri “mouse”, from Proto-Uralic *šiŋere, is a cognate to the Manchu word singgeri “mouse”, from Proto-Tungusic: *siŋere.

writing system

Parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters

less than 1 minute read

Published:

There are many nice parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters, although the ‘modern’ Chinese character has become less pictographic and we need to look at its form in the Oracle Bone Script.