Hello, this is Bamboo Cipher. Welcome to Chinese character arc, exploring the evolution of Chinese characters from oracle bone etchings to digital text (both traditional and simplified).
I make these videos as a fun research project and to supplement my learning Chinese as a second language. No promises regarding the accuracy of my facts.
We Always Thought the Future Would Be Kind of Fun by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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Character sources listed below.
0:05 Science ⇔ Kē xué
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/禾
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/斗
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/科
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/學
0:47 Physics ⇔ Wù lǐ
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/物
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/玉
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/里
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/理
1:30 Biology ⇔ Shēng wù
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/生
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/物
1:49 Chemistry ⇔ Huā xué
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/化
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/學
2:01 Medical Science ⇔ Yī xué
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/匸
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/矢
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/医
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/殳
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/酉
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/醫
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/學
2:56 Astronomy ⇔ Tiān wén
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/天
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/文
3:08 Geology ⇔ Dì zhí
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/土
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/也
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/地
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/斤
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/貝
humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk//Lex...
3:51 Ecology ⇔ Shēng tài
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/生
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/能
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/心
humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk//Lex...
4:16 Oceanology ⇔ Hǎi yáng xué
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/水
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/每
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/海
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/羊
humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk//Lex...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/學
5:05 Mathematics ⇔ Shù xué
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/母
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/中
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/女
humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk//Lex...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/攴
humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk//Lex...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/學
5:54 Statistics ⇔ Tǒng jì
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/糸
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/𠫓
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/儿
humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk//Lex...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/言
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/十
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/計
6:37 Engineering ⇔ Gōng chéng
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/工
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/禾
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/呈
humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk//Lex...