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Chinese Characters are the palm lines held in the hands of the Chinese nation. Following the lines, you can touch the secrets of the origins of Chinese culture. THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Origin of the Contest 03

Chinese Oracle, Egyptian Hieroglyph, Babylonian Cuneiform and Maya Hieroglyph are the four great ancient writing systems in the world. The long history of Chinese culture, including its development, spreading and inheritance, is re ected in Chinese characters. This ensures the intact inheritance and the innovative development of Chinese characters in each era. Nowadays, Chinese is the only ideograph whose inheriting process has never been interrupted. Chinese characters, on the one hand, are the symbols that carry and spread Chinese stories and oriental philosophies. On the other hand, they contain the aesthetic elements of the Chinese style and its oriental charm. All these are the civilization achievements and cultural wealth that can be shared by the world's young designers. On 30th October in 2015, Beijing Institute of Culture Innovation and Communication, the organizer of this contest, held the launching ceremony of the contest, Chinese Characters --- A Living Culture, at the UNESCO headquarters. The ambassadors from a number of countries at the ceremony played characters. They also witnessed the global launch of the contest. Based on the disciplinary advantages of philology and cultural transmission of Beijing Normal University, collaborating with the practical strengths of creative design and visual communication of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, this activity forms the transdisciplinary and collaborative innovation to promote the cultural communication of Chinese characters. This contest aims to encourage young people to understand the close connection between the profound connotation of Chinese characters and the Chinese culture, and explore the aesthetic values of Chinese characters beyond their function as communication tool. It also hopes to build a cultural bridge communicating between the young people from dierent cultural backgrounds, and THE BEAUT Y promote the oriental aesthetics of contemporary urban life through the creative design of Chinese characters. OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 04 Theme Analysis

Family, the eternal harbor of our souls, is not only the smallest unit of our society, but also the most fundamental origin of Chinese traditional ethics. The family relationship is a key in “self-cultivation and family harmony”. It’s the family where people get the most fundamental knowledge about society and thus begin to explore the world. A family is not only a house but also where kinds of relations belong to. The society is a big family in which all people perform their own stories about happinesses and sorrows to achieve their shared moral ideas. It’s the same kind of ethics that props up small families and big families. Family education is the basis for developing Chinese people’s values. We begin our journey to ourselves,

the vastest universe. Family represents the most profound universe overhead, witnessing ups and downs of human beings in the long run of history. Chinese people stick to heavenly principles and

eternal natural laws in the universe, which are more long-lasting than social ethics and help achieve a tacit agreement between human beings and the universe, while it’s just the family consciousness that connects heaven and natural laws together. From the commonly-used Chinese character “ 家 ”（jia, meaning family) in Chinese Oracle to Chinese characters closely relating to “ 家 ” like “ 室 ”(shi, meaning room), “ 堂 ”(tang, meaning hall), “ 安 ”(an, meaning peace), “ 宁 ”(ning, meaning quietness), “ 定 ”(ding, meaning stability) and even “ 宇 ” and “ 宙 ”(yu and zhou, meaning the universe together), we can really experience the changes in Chinese people’s daily life and the cohesion of family ethics. We have selected 30 Chinese characters with the same component “ 宀 ”, which are full of family wisdom and secrets of the THE BEAUT Y booming of the world. With the deliberation of global young designers, these 30 Chinese characters will be perfectly combined with colors, lines and shapes to produce creative design works featuring

OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Chinese ethical civilization. A harmonious family brings wealth and peace, and harmony in the family is the basis for success in any undertaking. This ancient oriental philosophy has become increasingly attractive across the world. Family is a basic element of human society. People’s desire and dependence on the eternity 05

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Convenors

The Convenor on Visual The Convenor on the Culture The General Convenor Communication of Chinese Characters

YU DAN CHEN NAN WANG LI JUN

Famous cultural scholar, professor Tsinghua University Academy of Arts Beijing Normal University professor, and Ph.D. adviser at Beijing Normal and Design Doctoral Supervisor; Deputy doctoral adviser; Director of the University, director of Beijing Director of The Research Centre of Chinese Character division at the Institute of Cultural Innovation Ancient Chinese Characters Art; Deputy Chinese traditional classic Texts and Communication. As a cultural Director of the Visual Communication Research Center, a key social science communication scholar, she is Department; research institute supported by committed to promote classical Member of the China Artists Association; Ministry of Education; core member Chinese culture worldwide, and has Member of the Design Committee of of the “General Standard Chinese her unique thinking in the innovative China Packaging Federation; Beijing Character Table” development development and communication of Industrial Design Center director; team. Representative works include Chinese character culture. Selected by the Education Ministry's Cultural Interpretation of Chinese New C e n t u r y E xc e lle n t Tale n t s Characters, General Rules of the Supporting Plan; Contributing designer Chinese Characters. for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games mascots; Olympic torchbearer; Winner of the10 outstanding youth of China

design industry. Designer of the world's THE BEAUT Y rst oracle font library, "Hanyi Chen style oracle". OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 08 Organizations

Hosts

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University, a key university under the administration of the Ministry of Education, is a renowned institution of higher education known for teacher education, education science and basic learning in both the arts and the sciences. The comprehensive disciplinary strength of Beijing Normal University puts the school at the forefront of the nation’s advanced teaching institutions.

technology innovation and one of the national bases for talent development of high quality and creativity.

Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University was formerly the Central Academy of Craft Art founded in 1956. In 1999, it was incorporated into Tsinghua University. With a long history, the Academy of Fine Arts has a well-designed academic structure with its own complete teaching, research and experimental facilities. It is highly respected in the design world and was rewarded twice as one of the 60 Best Design Schools in the world by Business Week of the US.

Organizers

Beijing Institute of Culture Innovation and Communication Beijing Institute of Culture Innovation and Communication is a new think tank jointly established by the Propaganda Department of Beijing Municipal Government and Beijing Normal University. In recent years, the institute has conducted a series of research on the innovative transformation of the traditional culture, the global promotion of Chinese culture, and the activation of the creative cultural industry. The director of the institute is the well-known cultural scholar, Yu Dan.

Ancient Chinese Characters Art Institute of Tsinghua University Founded in July 2014. The director of this institute is Han Meilin and executive deputy director is THE BEAUT Y Chen Nan. The institute takes the thought and methodology of ancient Chinese characters art design as the main research direction and aims at inheriting Chinese character art design contest and OF CHINESE CHARACTERS promoting the development of Chinese character art design.Its work involves painted pottery, rock painting and other early symbols of Chinese civilization, oracle bones inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, seal script, regular script and cursive script, ocial script and other calligraphic arts, the art of writing decoration in folk auspicious culture, as well as the language of Chinese ethnic

performance language, development process, style, etc. Organizations 09

Hanyi Fonts Hanyi Fonts was established in 1993. It is the rst culture creativity and information technology enterprise, which engages in professional type design, typeface development, information technology research of Chinese character, and solutions for Chinese typeface application in China mainland. It also has core proprietary intellectual property rights. Apart from conducting professional research, Hanyi Company puts more emphasis on the exploration of market and cutting edge of technology on font creativity and type design. Facing the rapidly developing application environments. Chinese Character Research and Modern Application Laboratory of Beijing Normal University As the key construction project of Beijing Normal University, based on School of Chinese Language and Literature with deep historical origin and a solid academic foundation and College of Information Science and Technology with abundant teaching and research strength, this laboratory is a high-level scientic research and service institution which integrates academic research and social service, traditional humanities and modern information science.

Supporting Organizations

Beijing Design Week Beijing Design Week in 2016 is co-hosted by the State Ministries and Beijing Municipal Government. the creative design. Nouvelles D'Europe Nouvelles D'Europe is the most in uential Chinese newspaper in Europe. It circulates in ve European countries including France, Spain and Italy. Its cultural center, Les Amis De Nouvelles D’Europe, serves as an important window through which Chinese culture is promoted abroad. Laguna College of Art and Design THE BEAUT Y Founded in 1961 as the Laguna Beach School of Art, LCAD has grown to include twelve undergraduate majors and four graduate degrees. LCAD is one of an elite number of institutions that has both regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and OF CHINESE CHARACTERS national accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. We get especially high marks for our use of technology and the liberal arts in the art and design curriculum. 10 Organizations

The Association of Chinese Artists in American Academia (ACAAA) The Association of Chinese Artists in American Academia (ACAAA)-- The forum Across the Divide is an academic exchange platform composed of Chinese professors who teach art design and relevant subjects in various universities in the United States. The promoters of the forum are Professor Yu Ji from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and Pro- fessor Xu Bing, Academic Committee chairman and former associate dean of Central Acad- emy of Fine Arts. After holding the rst American art exhibition and colloquium of Chinese art professors at California State University, Long Beach in 2003, Chinese art scholars in America began to take advantage of this academic platform to establish institutional aca- demic dialogue with the public in art education and practice, especially the topic of Chinese artist’ s position in overseas art education, and share their achievements in artistic practice and academic research. THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Theme and the Procedure of the Contest 11

Objectives

The mission of the contest is to encourage the young generation in the world to understand and explore Chinese culture, to activate the culture of Chinese characters, and to experience oriental aesthetics.

The Theme

Harmony in the Family is the Basis for Success in Any Undertaking

Family is the core of society and the most fundamental origin of Chinese traditional ethics. Family, the eternal harbor of our souls, is also the smallest unit of our society. A family is not only a house but also where kinds of relationships belong to. The family consciousness retains the deepest attachment to the cultural tradition and the deepest knowledge of our ancient nation. A simple Chinese character “ 家 ”（jia, meaning family) has endless extended meanings. Those Chinese characters closely relating to “ 家 ” like “ 室 ”(shi, meaning room), “ 堂 ”(tang, meaning hall), “ 安 ”(an, meaning peace), “ 定 ”(ding, meaning stability), “ 宗 ”(zong, meaning sect) and “ 宽 ”(kuan, meaning wide) are full of family wisdom and secrets of the booming of the world.

Contest Format

Choose any one of the 30 Chinese characters with the same component " 宀 " as source of creation THE BEAUT Y and complete a piece of design work on the basis of understanding of its meaning and positive thinking, according to the starting point for creativity-"Harmony in the Family is the Basis for Success in Any Undertaking". OF CHINESE CHARACTERS

To broaden the creative room for this contest and promote interdisciplinary thinking, this contest welcomes all kinds of designs, such as visual communication design, product design, spatial design, costume design and others. The works that have practical use in daily life and embody the cultural implications of Chinese characters containing “ 宀 ” radical are favored. 12 Theme and the Procedure of the Contest THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS

You can find the interpretation of 30 Chinese Characters from the appendix. Theme and the Procedure of the Contest 13

Participation Scope

Competition Group: Participation Quality： 1）Age: 18-44. 2）Teachers and students majoring in art design from home and abroad. Designers at design rms, independent designers around the world and youngsters interested in Chinese characters from all walks of life.

Design work submission time period: 15th March -15th August,2018

Contest Schedule

Contest Stage Schedule

The First Round Online Application and Work Submission 15th March -15th August,2018 THE BEAUT Y Assessment Stage August, 2018 OF CHINESE CHARACTERS “The Beauty of Chinese Characters” ---Global Youth Design Contest Award Ceremony of September, 2018 2018 14 Application Procedure

Submission Method

Participants submit their works on line. They can visit the ocial website www. l ove hanzi. com for f u r the r d e tails, re giste r online a n d ll in the re gistration information. The judges will evaluate and select the nalists, and the winners will come from the nalists.

Special Tip

The ocial characters used in the contest are from Hanyi Fonts which is free for all contestants. The scope of use is limited to the creation of the work for the 2018 "The Beauty of Chinese Characters" Global Youth Design Contest. Download link: www. lovehanzi.com

Entry Fee

The registration is Free. THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Work Submission 15

1、Registration guidelines: Please sign up online via www.lovehanzi.com at 00:00 15th March -15th August, 2018 (Beijing Time / UTC + 08:00).

2、Log in your personal account and upload your work. You can download work submission format and spare fonts at the downloading sector. The pictures and work descriptions included in your work should be put in order as the submission format and other requirements. You should submit

3、Matters needing attention (1) Before the deadline of submission, participants can log in to add design works, revise the submitted works or modify the personal information. (2) After the deadline of submission, participants cannot revise their works or change their names. (3) To ensure the rights and obligations of the participants, the intellectual property and the

Agreements. THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 16 Selection Standards

The experts and judges of “The Beauty of Chinese Characters” are both fair and professional. The

the theme, the aesthetic values, the completeness, and the innovation.

Relevance, 25%

Based on the appendix of the thirty Chinese characters with the same component “ 宀 ”, the submitted works need to show the theme of “Harmony in the Family is the Basis for Success in Any Undertaking”, with a deep understanding of the cultural meanings of the selected Chinese character. The designers are expected to produce creative design works featuring Chinese cultural connotations contained in the thirty Chinese characters with the same component “ 宀 ”. Emotional and cultural expression of the design works will also be taken into consideration.

Aesthetic values and the completeness, 25%

The works should display high aesthetic values and fully express their artistic conception as well as the unique features. The participants do not need to limit themselves to certain artistic form, but they should ensure the unity of the aesthetic feelings. The works should be submitted as a complete design that fully conveys the contestant’s design concept.

Innovation, 25%

The concept, the function and the materials should have some originality. The participants are THE BEAUT Y encouraged to innovate boldly, and get their inspiration from making their own connection between Chinese characters culture and other cultures.

OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Usability, 25%

oriental aesthetics in everyday life. Review 17

YU DAN

Famous cultural scholar, professor and Ph.D. adviser at Beijing Normal University, director of Beijing Institute of Cultural Innovation and Communication. As a cultural communication scholar, she is committed to promote classical Chinese culture worldwide, and has her unique thinking in the innovative development and communication of Chinese character culture.

CHEN NAN

Tsinghua University Academy of Arts and Design Doctoral Supervisor; Deputy Director of The Research Centre of Ancient Chinese Characters Art; Deputy Director of the Visual Communication Department; Member of the China Artists Association; Member of the Design Committee of China Packaging Federation; Beijing Industrial Design Center director; Selected by the Education Ministry’s New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Plan; Contributing designer for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games mascots; Olympic torchbearer; Winner of the10 outstanding youth of China design industry. Designer of the THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 18 Review

WANG LI JUN

Beijing Normal University professor, doctoral adviser; Director of the Chinese Character division at the Chinese traditional classic Texts Research Center, a key social science research institute supported by Ministry of Education; core member of the “General Standard Chinese Character Table” development team. Representative works include Cultural Interpretation of Chinese characters, General Rules of the Chinese Characters.

Yuiji Amamura

He is the dean of School of International Relations in Fukuoka International University, the chairman of International Exchange Committee, the president of Chinese Cultural Community Research Society, the council member of WACCS Japan Branch and the standing vice-president & Secretary-general of World Chinese Character Culture and Design Institute. He is also the member of the Recommendation Commission of Fukuoka Prize and the vice-president & Secretary-general of Fukuoka Asian Design Communication Association. THE BEAUT Y

LEE YONG-PING OF CHINESE CHARACTERS

She is the current honorary president of Association of Taiwan Cultural and Creative Industry Alliance, and was the rst female deputy mayor of the Taipei City Government. Taipei City

Cultural Foundation, and legislator of the Taiwan’s Legislature. Review 19

BI XUE FENG

Professor of China Academy of Art, Vice Dean of College of Art and Design, academic member of Shenzhen Graphic Design Association and member of Alliance Graphique Internationale(AGI).He has been involved in the enlightenment and development of organizing and promoting shenzhen graphic design and has provided excellent solutions for many customers through innovative design in the eld of commercial design.His design works won more than 100 domestic awards, and have been collected by the British V & A Museum, Germany Hamburg Design Museum and other museums. As curator and judge, he organized the 2005 French Contemporary Design Exhibition, 2007 and 2009 GDC Graphic Design Exhibition in China, 2011 " Back to China " Theme Invitational Exhibition, 2012" 设 计深圳 2013 Rediscover OCT-LOFT Art Design Invitational Exhibition, 2015 Macao Graphic Design Biennial, 2016 China Design intelligence Award, the Taiwan Golden Pin Award, etc.

MA YI YUAN THE BEAUT Y

Design Competition, standing committee of Book Design Art Working Committee of Chinese Publishing Association, director

of China Industrial Design Association and the Central Youth May OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Fourth Medal winner. 20 The Awards

“The Beauty of Chinese Characters” at Beijing Design Week and the international exhibition of “The Beauty of Chinese Characters”.

One grand prize $5000 cash, the trophy of “The Beauty of Chinese Characters” Global Youth Design Contest, the

One gold award $2000 cash, the trophy of “The Beauty of Chinese Characters” Global Youth Design Contest, the

Five silver awards $1000 cash, the trophy of “The Beauty of Chinese Characters” Global Youth Design Contest, the

Ten bronze awards

contest, and a theme album of “The Beauty of Chinese Characters”.

10 awards for the best advisor

50 awards of merits THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Matters needing attention 21

1、The design works will not be returned. Please make copies for your works if needed. 2、 contestants and the organizers. The contest organizers will use the email address to send important information about

3、The name of the design and the name of the participant cannot be changed after the deadline of registration. Please the contest. 4、All participants promise that all the materials provided in this agreement and the attachment are true and valid, that the work is created independently by themselves and not suspected of plagiarism or infringement upon the copyright of others, that there are no dispute over copyright and the work does not break copyright law, the publication law and other relevant laws and regulations, and the works do not contain the following contents: (1) Opposing the basic principles established by the Constitution; (2) Endangering national unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity; (3) Endangering national security, honor and interests; (4) Inciting national separatism, infringing on customs of national minority, and undermining national unity; (5) Revealing state secrets; (6) Preaching obscenity, superstition or violence, endangering social morality and excellent national cultural traditions; (7) Insulting or slandering others; (8) Other contents prohibited by laws and regulations. In case of suspected plagiarism, copyright infringement or other behaviors, the organizing committee reserves the right to disqualify the award and recover the honors and prizes granted after investigation. Any disputes arising from copyright issues shall be resolved by the contestants themselves. 5、The authors of the shortlisted works shall agree to authorize the organizing committee of the contest free of charge and non-exclusive to use the relevant materials, such as pictures and explanatory text of the entries, to produce audio- and public services. The organizing committee and the supporting media have the right to reprint the entries for free within 24 months from the beginning of the event. 6、The organizing committee of the competition shall enjoy the right to prioritize cooperation and development of consultation and then formally signed. 7、The winners should provide detailed information of the winning works for public report and display. Within three years after the award, the winners and their works should cooperate with the relevant exhibition and publicity activities THE BEAUT Y

8、The prize money shall be taxed in accordance with the relevant regulations.

Please read the above agreement carefully and you shall be deemed to have agreed upon the above agreement upon OF CHINESE CHARACTERS submission of the work. 22 Contest review THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Contest review 23

On September 27th 2016, "The Beauty of Chinese Characters'' Creative Design International Forum, hosted by Beijing Normal University and Academy of Arts& Design of Tsinghua University, initiated and organized by Beijing Institute of Culture Innovation and Communication and co-organized by Institute of Communication System Design of Tsinghua University and Hanyi Font, came to a successful conclusion in Beijing, at the same time marking the perfect ending of the "The Beauty of Chinese Characters" 2016 Global Youth Design Contest. Through erce competition, 17 works

Awards, eleven Bronze Awards and 49 Merit Awards. The Grand Awards was vacant because the

At the "The Beauty of Chinese Characters" Creative Design International Forum, many international and domestic famous cultural scholars, researchers of Chinese characters culture and popular international designers came together to have an extensive and profound discussion on Chinese characters’ current creativity, aesthetics, application and development, symbolic symbol and other questions. The initiator of the cultural project "The Beauty of Chinese Characters" and a famous cultural scholar, professor Yu Dan of Beijing Normal University said: "Chinese Characters are the palm lines held in the hands of the Chinese nation. Following the lines, you can touch the secrets of the origins of Chinese culture. Chinese characters are also the native land owing under the

Design Contest.” THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 24

Awards List

The Awards Award Winner Works’ Title

Clock of M a tch ing C h inese Gold Award Lv You Characters

Zhang Xiaodong,Lu Zhikun,Luo Silver Award The City of Heart Ming,Sun Zhouyang,Wang Peng

Thinking/Feelings Silver Award Wu Yibo / Feel Grateful Humane/ 365 days

Drips of Beneficent Water-the Design Silver Award Fu Yebo of Tea Filter

Silver Award KIM SU JIN Chinese Character“Wen”

The Knife Stone in the Shape o f Silver Award Yang Kexin Chinese Character “Ren”

Bronze Award Wei Yange Chess Game with the Theme of Heart

Bronze Award Li Jia Light of the Heart

Cong Sha，Zhang C u i,Zhan g Bronze Award Four Groups of Bedding Articles Juan, Song Weidong,Liu Rifang

Bronze Award Zhang Xiwen Recalling with Emotion

Bronze Award Yang Can Yi-The Voice from the Heart

Bronze Award Ren He Gentlemen’s Band-aids

Bronze Award Yang Jin Chair with the Shape of “恋”(Love) THE BEAUT Y

Bronze Award Yang Lijie Xin-Character”Scripture OF CHINESE CHARACTERS

Bronze Award Guo Bingqi Incense Plate(Buddhist Incense Dish)

Bronze Award Ellen Zhu(Australia) Rings of The Heart

Bronze Award Ulaan sticky Notes with Chinese Characters 大赛回顾 25 Contest review

As one of the important brand events of Beijing International Design Week, the outstanding works of this contest were exhibited in the 77 Cultural Creation Park in Dongcheng District, from September 24th to 30th. After the awards ceremony, the winners of the contest participated in the one-week "a journey of searching for Chinese character culture". During the week, they went to the capital's famous cultural institutions such as the Capital Museum, Confucius Temple and Imperial College to personally experience the essence and feel the charms of Chinese character culture. The purpose of Chinese character culture tour is to deepen young designers' understanding of Chinese culture so that they can rejuvenate traditional culture with the design inspiration and create modern design products with traditional culture heritage accumulation to be used in daily life. After the awards ceremony, the international exhibition for excellent works for "The Beauty of Chinese Characters" 2016 Global Youth Design Contest went to Japan's Fukuoka Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, San Francisco City Library and Biola University, Los Angeles to meet with local residents. THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 25

Works Show THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 27 THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 28 THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 29 THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 30 THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 31 THE BEAUT Y OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 32 三十个汉字中英文释义参照附录 The appendix of thirty Chinese characters interpretation

家 宏 家庭、人家，也指家人所居住的房屋。 表示宏大，多侧重强调内涵多、容量大。

Home; the house people live in Large size, usually refers to rich connotation or high capacity 室 安 指四面封闭的屋子；也可以用来指单位或机关工作的地方， 可以用作形容词表安定，也可以用作动词表使安定。

如图书室、档案室等。 Stable or stabilize

A room; a place used by companies or governments such as 宁

libraries and archives 表示人或社会安宁、平静。

堂 Peaceful society or calm person 指厅堂或正屋，往往有敞亮、宽敞的特点。现在多用来指 定 专门为某种活动准备的场所，如礼堂、纪念堂等。 使人心神平静或使某物固定、稳定下来。

Originally refers to the living room or the main building To calm somebody or to stabilize something

which is usually light and spacious; now it often refers to the 富 指物质上财力丰厚、充裕完备。

memorial hall Have abundant properties and wealth 寝 实 指躺着休息或者睡觉，如废寝忘食，又指所止息之地，即 指事物内部被完全填满、没有空隙；也指为人品格实在、

卧室，如寝室、寿终正寝等。 诚实。

Lay to rest or sleep, such as losing sleep and forgetting to Refers to the status that something is completely lled by

eat from anxiety; and this Chinese character also refers to something without any vacancy; to describe that somebody is

the place where to stop, such as getting rest in the bedroom, honest

dying in the bed or dying a natural death 宝

THE BEAUT Y 宇 指珍贵的东西。

表示上下四方，所有的空间。 Precious things All spaces around 守 OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 宙 指保持、护卫，呆在某个地方不动，也指遵守规则或法律。 表示古往今来的时间。

Times from the beginning of the universe to the end of the rules

universe 宗 指家族的上辈，或民族的祖先；也指事物主要的目的和意图。 33

Elders in the family or ancestor of any ethnic group, also refers Refers to the status that something has not been to as the objects or aims of something destroyed, thus is perfect and intact; also means that

things are completed 宴 宽 酒席，或指以酒饭款待宾客。 房屋内空间大且有余地，也表示内心的舒缓与解脱。

Banquet; to prepare meals and drinks for guests Means that a room is very big which has extra spaces, 容 also means that someone is relieved 指包含、容纳，也指相貌、仪表。 宿

Containment or accommodation; the way someone looks, 在屋内过夜。也表示安于自己所处的位置。 appearance 宜 寓 事物之间或人与人之间相合适，或指应当做某事。 在家以外的地方临时居住。

One thing is well matched with the other one, or a person is Temporary stay in some places instead of home well matched with the other person, or refers to the condition 寡 that someone should do something 因失去配偶而独居一室，也表示数量少。 宠 Living alone because the wife or husband has passed 多指对人或小动物偏爱、溺爱。 away; small quantity Preference and fondness for people and small animals 客 害 从别处来到自家探访的人。 引起灾难的人或事物。 Guests People or objects that cause disasters 寒 宫 天气寒冷，也指家庭穷困。

由数间居室构成的房屋。秦汉以后专指帝王的宫殿。 Cold weather; poor family THE BEAUT Y A house consisted of several rooms, also refers to the 寰 palace of emperors since the Qin and Han dynasties 古时京都周围千里之地。也泛指广大的境域。

宰 Refers to areas that is a thousand miles around the capital city in OF CHINESE CHARACTERS

古代官名，也指主管、主持。 ancient times; vast territory

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