{"id":325,"date":"2011-03-18T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2011-04-02T22:23:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T05:23:24","slug":"tangut-1036-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/tangut-1036-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Tangut &#8212; 1036, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_340\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tangut.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-340\" title=\"tangut\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tangut.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tangut character<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Like King Sejong did four hundred years later with <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/hangul-1446-ad-korea\/\">Korean<\/a>, Emperor <a title=\"Li Yuanhao\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Li_Yuanhao\">Li Yuanhao<\/a> of the Tangut told one of his advisors to make him a new writing system.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yeli_Renrong\">Yeli Renrong<\/a> did, and quickly.\u00a0 Yuanhao must have been more forceful than Sejong, or his elites less powerful, because his new script was more quickly adopted than Sejong&#8217;s: schools were set up to teach it and government documents were written in it.<\/p>\n<p>To those of us who do not read Chinese characters, Tangut looks kind of like Chinese.\u00a0 To someone who is familiar with Chinese characters, however, Tangut looks unambiguously <em>not<\/em> Chinese.\u00a0 Traditional <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/chinese-traditional-chinese\/\">Chinese script<\/a> is made up of <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/8_Strokes_of_Han_Characters.png\">eight basic stroke shapes<\/a>, and Tangut uses <a href=\"http:\/\/unicode.org\/~rscook\/Xixia\/images\/strokes_HXM.jpg\">some additional strokes<\/a> and the components (&#8220;radicals&#8221;) look very different as well.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tangut_script\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/tangut.htm\">Omniglot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/unicode.org\/~rscook\/Xixia\/\">Tangut (X\u012bxi\u00e0) Orthography and Unicode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like King Sejong did four hundred years later with Korean, Emperor Li Yuanhao of the Tangut told one of his advisors to make him a new writing system.\u00a0 Yeli Renrong did, and quickly.\u00a0 Yuanhao must have been more forceful than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/18\/tangut-1036-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logograms-language-types","category-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}