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  2. Chinese checkers - Wikipedia

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    The game was invented in Germany in 1892 under the name "Stern-Halma" as a variation of the older American game Halma. [5] The Stern (German for star) refers to the board's star shape (in contrast to the square board used in Halma). The name "Chinese checkers" originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928.

  3. List of CJK fonts - Wikipedia

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    List of free Simplified Chinese fonts; List of free Traditional Chinese fonts; List of free Japanese fonts; List of free Korean fonts; Free Chinese Font; Free Japanese Font; Free Korean Fonts; Arphic Public License: a free font, licensed by Arphic Technology (in Chinese) 免费中文字体 (in Chinese) 適用於 GNU/Linux 的字型; Japanese ...

  4. East Asian typography - Wikipedia

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    East Asian Gothic typeface, known as heiti ('black form') in Chinese, are sans-serif typefaces used with East Asian scripts. They can be further divided into two main types: round sans fonts have rounded ends, while square sans fonts have square ends. [9]

  5. Game of the Day: Chinese Checkers - AOL

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    Today's Game of the Day is a board game classic: Chinese Checkers! Chinese Checkers, contrary to popular belief, was not invented in China, or, indeed, any part of Asia at all. It was actually ...

  6. CJK characters - Wikipedia

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    Translation of "That old man is 72 years old" in Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin (in simplified and traditional characters), Japanese, and Korean.. In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include Chinese characters.

  7. Chinese character IT - Wikipedia

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    The input code of a Chinese character is its pinyin letter string followed by an optional number representing the tone. For example, the Putonghua pinyin input code of 香港 (Hong Kong) is xianggang or xiang1gang3, and the Cantonese Jyutping code is hoenggong or hoeng1gong2, all of which can be easily input via an English keyboard. In ...

  8. Wonton font - Wikipedia

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    A wonton font (also known as Chinese, chopstick, chop suey, [1] or kung-fu) is a mimicry typeface with a visual style intended to express an East Asian, or more specifically, Chinese typographic sense of aestheticism. Styled to mimic the brush strokes used in Chinese characters, wonton fonts often convey a sense of Orientalism. In modern times ...

  9. Chinese script styles - Wikipedia

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    Today, seal script is predominantly used for the seals that give it its English name. Though East Asian seals—or name chops—are carved in materials like wood and jade, the forms themselves were originally written with brush and ink on bamboo slips and other media. Most modern readers cannot easily decipher seal script, and it is generally ...