{"id":505,"date":"2006-09-01T23:34:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/chlorinated-alphabet\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T03:50:52","slug":"chlorinated-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/chlorinated-alphabet\/","title":{"rendered":"chlorinated alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanzismatter.com\/2006\/08\/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/news_photos\/2006\/09\/chlorinated_font.gif\" alt=\"images of Chinese characters and 'radicals' produced when typing various letters in a font\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 242px; float: right; border-left: 1em solid white;\" \/><\/a>Tian at <a href=\"http:\/\/hanzismatter.blogspot.com\/\">Hanzismatter<\/a> always manages to find good stuff. But this time, with the help of Alan Siegrist, he&#8217;s outdone himself. I&#8217;ve got tears streaming down my face because I&#8217;ve been laughing so hard at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hanzismatter.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html\">font of random characters and so-called radicals<\/a> that some people have apparently been mistaking for a phonetic guide to Chinese characters. <\/p>\n<p>My title for this entry is in reference to the character given when the letter Z is typed: &#27695;. This is <span class=\"py\">l&#476;<\/span>, which means &#8220;chlorine.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tian at Hanzismatter always manages to find good stuff. But this time, with the help of Alan Siegrist, he&#8217;s outdone himself. I&#8217;ve got tears streaming down my face because I&#8217;ve been laughing so hard at the font of random characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/chlorinated-alphabet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,50,29,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-hanja","category-japanese","category-kanji","category-tattoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}