漢 Hanzi Design

Symbols Cosmologies Concepts Essays Publications About

Concept / brush

筆

brush · pen

Bamboo + Brush

Cosmological Mappings

Four Elements Air

Panchabhuta Air

Evolution

✍ →筆 →筆

Explore More Characters

秋 autumn · harvest · qiu 竹 bamboo · hollow 熊 bear · strength 鐘 bell · clock 丙 bing · third · fire 鳥 bird · avian 黑 black · dark 血 blood · vital fluid

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Hanzi Design is a research institute for Chinese symbolic systems. We publish characters, cosmologies, and concepts as design objects.

London, United Kingdom

Mike Oustamanolakis, PhD

Curator

Systems Strategist. Hanzi makes more sense to me than alphabets do.

Collection

Symbols Cosmologies Concepts

Writing

Essays Publications About

Newsletter

Occasional dispatches on new research and publications.

618 Institutes

Symbolic Institute Canto 粵學院 the editor

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