Chinese oracle bone inscriptions (甲骨文) over 3,000 years old are now being widely used as emojis by young WeChat users, thanks to a person who made them(close) to people's life than before.
“The ancient characters are not as cool and distant they are supposed to be,” said the (create) Chen Nan. “In fact, they are cute and humorous, and they could totally serve our needs for online expression.”46-year-old professor of fine art at Tsinghua University has been working to make oracle bone inscriptions into emojis. For example, the character for “zui,” means “drunk” in English, was created (look) like a stumbling figure.
Chen has also combined the ancient Chinese characters with cartoon figures. A cartoon video clip (feature) oracle bone inscriptions designed by him was viewed 31 million times and shared 140,000 times.
Chen worked on the road of innovation 19 years ago. In 2016, the ancient typeface(include) into the font library under his efforts to let the ancient words walk into people's life. Now the library has as many as 3,500 characters,Chen's research on the project still continues, as he plans to extend the library to 7,000 characters. In the future, he will apply the ancient characters education and development of games and apps.
