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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by pas on Sunday April 15, 2018 @01:46PM (#16843827)
> You write a "new" Chinese character

Why would you write a new character? How would others know what it means? Unless they figure it out from the radicals? (Which sounds like lossy as hell.)

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Re:The long, tortuous and fascinating process of creating a ... by raverbashing on Sunday April 15, 2018 @01:54PM (#16843875)
"New" in the sense it's something not present in the dictionaries/fonts (see the other comment about the Bible characters). I'm not suggesting you invent a new character.
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