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Close-up of a calligraphy tablet featuring elegant Chinese characters in black ink, attributed to Song Dynasty calligrapher Huang Tingjian, with red seal stamps on the left.
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An estimated 1.34 billion people around the world use the Chinese alphabet—also known...
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