Pictographic design of food-related chinese characters – Learning Chinese

edge.neocha.com — An interesting take on Chinese pictographic characters in the form of food-related words. Shanghai-based Win has created a number of Chinese characters where some element or stroke of the character has been stylized in the form of the object it represents.

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