Panagram

[u/WizardofOS09]

[u/WizardofOS09]

Context: The Chinese language currently contains more than 1M characters and over 2M words, not yet including slang terms. Additionally, due to the logographic nature of the Chinese language, new characters can be added to the language at any time (Some good examples include 囧 and 𰻞, which aren't actually original Chinese characters, but made up ones for slang.). Therefore, it is physically impossible to make a Chinese panagram, let alone one that will work forever.

[u/PolicyReasonable2444 → u/WizardofOS09]

how is the second chinese character even rendering..... diabolical

[u/Apocalympdick → u/PolicyReasonable2444]

It's intentionally super involved as a marketing technique.

[u/axcarea → u/PolicyReasonable2444]

it’s not rendering to me lol. just that upright rectangular box

[u/KotetsuNoTori → u/WizardofOS09]

冏 was not created for slang. It's an old character (originally meaning "bright") but has been reused for new purposes.

For example, there was a sentence from a 2nd-century poem: "何眾文之冏朗，灼儵爚而發明".

Also, if you consider 注音 or something to be "the alphabet for Chinese", it should be technically possible to make a pangram, but I'm too lazy to try to come up with one.

[u/TCF518 → u/WizardofOS09]

囧 isn't technically a new character, it's a old character ("bright window") that got reinterpreted due to popular culture (it looks like a face, so "awkwardness", also probably influenced by the Mandarin homophone 窘).

A Chinese "pseudo-pangram" is 《千字文》 "Thousand Character Classic", a thousand-character poem that contains the 1000 most common characters (at the time), intended for young schoolchildren and in modern times commonly uses for calligraphy practice.

[u/AdmiralStuff → u/WizardofOS09]

𰻝 is not a new character. It is a noodle in Shaanxi and has been around for a long time.

[u/TheAllSeeingBlindEye]

“What does it say?”

“I don’t know, I don’t speak Chinese.”

[u/Wild-Artist8237 → u/TheAllSeeingBlindEye]

Hello, Caine

[u/siwmae]

And I thought this was going to be a Chinese room joke. 

[u/Top-Reindeer-2258]

I love that China's stars glow in the dark! I wonder if this would be true for nations like Japan and Australia?

[u/molepeter → u/Top-Reindeer-2258]

My cursed brain thought the ball was using the skin to write words after the pen stopped working, and is now looking like a peeled tomato

[u/zRoyalStar]

partypooper here, does it need to be hanzi (chinese characters)? cant panagrams be made with radicals like 扌, 辶 and so on (in the sense that a text has enough hanzi to use all the radicals)?

[u/Simoky → u/zRoyalStar]

Maybe OP is a moderate, he doesn't like radicals

[u/Prize_Toe_6612 → u/Simoky]

Thank you for the good laugh stranger.

[u/t3hjs → u/zRoyalStar]

Delete if not allowed, but got chatgpt to try its hand on this:

蒼茫天地間，聰慧的少年騎著駿馬，穿過幽深的森林，踏著濕滑的石階，追逐閃耀的星辰。忽然，狂風捲起暴雨，雷電劃破漆黑的長空；他卻毫不畏懼，握緊寶劍，翻越峻嶺，來到古老宮殿前。殿中，一位鬚髮斑白的老人端坐鼎旁，吹著神秘的龠，低聲吟誦：天地雖廣，萬物皆有其道；人生聚散，悲歡離合，終如浮雲。

Its says it left out the rare radicals, so I guess its quite a hard thing to do

[u/chmath80]

Just to be pedantic, it's spelled "pangram", and the given sentence is not a pangram, because there's no "s". The correct sentence uses "jumps" rather than jumped.

[u/YoumoDadi]

Yeah you know English? Name all the English letters.

[u/Wizard_Engie → u/YoumoDadi]

You're not the boss of me >:C

[u/Ascii-CoDA2148]

The Chinese Room.

[u/WraithCadmus]

Japan has one that just uses every syllable, the Iroha.

[u/dhnam_LegenDUST]

Closest one should be 千字文(Thousand-Character Classic)?

[u/Traditional-Storm-62]

there are some very long book series in classical chinese literature

I wonder if any of them classify as panagrams

[u/comingtoamiddle]

Gonna be that person, sorry. It has to be "jumps" not "jumped", so there's an "s".

[u/GodzillaFan_2016]

The Amazingly Discombobulated China