WRMCNAIR Posted February 2, 2006 at 09:04 PM Report Posted February 2, 2006 at 09:04 PM Greetings. If I wish to transform a modern text (or any random text for that matter) into 'seal script' or 'oracle bone characters', will it do to simply use one of the many seal carving dictionaries around and substitute, character for character, archaic for modern forms? Not being very advanced in my study of Chinese, I guess my question has to do with meaning (especially in sequences or groups of characters): will the result of the trasformation above yield a meaningful result (the same as the original text) or just a bunch of characters? The objective here is more decorative or aesthetic than trying to effectivley communicate, but I'd still like to know if I'm just generating jibberish. Quote
amego Posted February 3, 2006 at 07:14 AM Report Posted February 3, 2006 at 07:14 AM Hello, well for 'seal script' you can, as the modern 楷书 originated from there, so you can substitute word for word, anyway if that's not the case then seal carvers would have gone out of business . Well for 'oracle bone characters', only around 500 characters exist, compared to the 50000+ characters (although some claimed that 80000+ characters exist) now. So its impossible to "go back". Quote
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