Sentence examples for like Chinese characters from inspiring English sources

Xu Bing, an artist who puzzles and delights both Chinese and Westerners with his use of Chinese brushstrokes to write English words that look like Chinese characters, warned the young audience against following convention.

Words can be spelled by putting these symbols one after another, as most writing systems do, but Koreans have preferred to group the symbols into square blocks like Chinese characters.

There is the spotted bass, the asu (which grows the biggest and has perch-like vertical bands), and the butterfly bass, which has three to four markings along its sides that look like Chinese characters.

The butterfly variety is a stunning turquoise and ocher, with what look like Chinese characters scribbled in black ink on its sides.

Xu Bing has created a limited edition of prints entitled "Book from the Sky" that is composed of over 4,000 imaginary pictographs: They look like Chinese characters but in fact mean nothing at all.

The artist is known as one of China's leading minds in art, and is credited as the inventor of Square Word Calligraphy, a part-code, part-alphabet that looks like Chinese characters, but is actually a manipulation of English letters.

Although now the common term is "表观 (biaoguan) genetics", many scientists do not like this translation because the Chinese characters "表观" mean "superficial" or "on the surface" (it was previously felt that CpG methylation was on the surface of DNA molecules, and thus "epigenetics" was translated as "表观").

Outside is the same faded red-and-yellow awning and the same faded red sign with Nom Wah's name in yellow script, above blocks of Chinese characters like oversize mahjong tiles.

The database is also divided into interesting subsets like strings comprising all Chinese characters, mixed strings and digits.

Most participants (N = 20) also spoke a Chinese dialect from their hometown, but as these dialects use simplified Chinese characters like Mandarin, this should not be a confounding factor.

From the air, the circuit looks like the Chinese character "shang," the first character in the name of Shanghai, meaning "above" or "ascend".