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Dec 31, 2012

Chinese Characters

Chinese alphabet is represented by "characters", a set of symbols each of which represents a word or idea. Tsang Kie, the hero with two pairs of eyes, is said to have created Chinese characters after studying traces left by birds’ feet in the sand. (Adapted from ‘Inventions and Discoveries’, by Vale-Anne Giscard d’Estaing and Mark Young)