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Chinese characters of Empress Wu

Index Chinese characters of Empress Wu

Chinese characters of Empress Wu, or the Zetian characters, are Chinese characters introduced by Empress Wu Zetian, the only reigning female in the history of China, to demonstrate her power. [1]

13 relations: A Book from the Sky, Chinese characters, Chinese numerals, Claudian letters, History of China, Kangxi Dictionary, Naming taboo, Old Book of Tang, Three-legged crow, Unicode, Wu Zetian, YOLO (aphorism), Zong Qinke.

A Book from the Sky

A Book from the Sky is the title of a book produced by Chinese artist Xu Bing in the style of fine editions from the Song and Ming dynasties, but filled entirely with meaningless glyphs designed to resemble traditional Chinese characters.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.

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Chinese numerals

Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese.

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Claudian letters

The Claudian letters were developed by, and named after, the Roman Emperor Claudius (reigned 41–54).

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History of China

The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC,William G. Boltz, Early Chinese Writing, World Archaeology, Vol.

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Kangxi Dictionary

The Kangxi Dictionary was the standard Chinese dictionary during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Naming taboo

A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons in China and neighboring nations in the ancient Chinese cultural sphere.

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Old Book of Tang

The Old Book of Tang, or simply the Book of Tang, is the first classic historical work about the Tang dynasty, comprising 200 chapters, and is one of the Twenty-Four Histories.

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Three-legged crow

The three-legged (or tripedal) crow is a creature found in various mythologies and arts of East Asia.

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Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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Wu Zetian

Wu Zetian (624 December16, 705),Paludan, 100 alternatively named Wu Zhao, Wu Hou, and during the later Tang dynasty as Tian Hou, also referred to in English as Empress Consort Wu or by the deprecated term "Empress Wu", was a Chinese sovereign who ruled unofficially as empress consort and empress dowager and later, officially as empress regnant (皇帝) during the brief Zhou dynasty (周, 684–705), which interrupted the Tang dynasty (618–690 & 705–907).

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YOLO (aphorism)

YOLO is the acronym of "you only live once".

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Zong Qinke

Zong Qinke (宗秦客) (died 691?) was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty, serving briefly as chancellor during Wu Zetian's reign.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters_of_Empress_Wu

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