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April 2016

How would you…

By Design, Food for thought

…like your graphic design?

Created by designer Colin Harman, this diagram illustrates the four limitations graphic designers are usually saddled with: work that is fast, cheap, great and free. All tall orders in it by itself. Now throw in a monkey wrench, whereby you can only pick two of these to work with.

And don’t they ALL love FREE?! I wonder if they thought of giving away THEIR products or services for free? Yet, Harman is quite courteous and polite. He simply tells them to “go away.”

子: child; 1st terrestrial branch

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning, Music

 

子 zi

noun suffix

子 zǐ

noun | radical 39
: son; offspring; child; seed; egg
: small thing
: 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat
: Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位

Kun Reading

子 | こ ko

noun | noun suffix
: child
: young (animal)
: young woman; young geisha
: offshoot
: interest
: (Abbreviation) new shares
: (Archaism) bird egg; (Noun suffix) (after a noun or -masu stem) -er (often of young women)

子 | ね ne

noun | noun suffix
: first sign of Chinese zodiac (The Rat, 11pm-1am, north, November)

子 OR 実 | み mi

noun
: fruit; nut
: seed
: (in broth) pieces of meat, vegetable, etc.
: content; substance

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子 | し shi

noun
: child (esp. a boy)
: viscount
: (Honorific or respectful language) master (founder of a school of thought, esp. Confucius)
: philosophy (branch of Chinese literature); non-Confucian Hundred Schools of Thought writings
: (Archaism) you (of one’s equals); (Noun suffix) -er (i.e. a man who spends all his time doing…)

子 OR 主 | す su

suffix
: honorific (or familiar) suffix used after a name

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号 | 號: sign; number | cry

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning, Music

號 [号] hào

verb | measure word
: ordinal number; day of a month
: mark; sign
: business establishment
: size
: ship suffix
: horn (wind instrument)
: bugle call
: assumed name
: to take a pulse
: classifier used to indicate number of people

號 [号] háo


: roar; cry; to cry out

Kun Reading

号する | ごうする kousuru

suru verb – special class
: to name; to take a second name or alias
: to announce; to boast; to declare

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号 OR 號 | ごう kou

noun | noun suffix
: number; edition; make; model; issue; part of that group
: sobriquet; pen-name

ゴウ gou

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拷: torture and interrogate; hit

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning

拷 kǎo


: to beat; to flog
: to examine under torture

Kun Reading
none applicable

打つ | うつ utsu

godan verb with tsu ending | transitive verb
: to hit; to strike; to knock; to beat; to punch; to slap; to tap; to bang; to clap; to pound
: to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (a drum, etc.)
: to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.)
: to move; to impress; to touch
: to drive in; to hammer in; to put in; to inject
: to type; to send; to transmit
: to insert; to write in; to mark
: to make (noodles, etc.); to prepare
: to till (soil)
: to sprinkle; to throw; to cast
: to do; to carry out; to play; to perform; to engage in (gambling, etc.)
: to pay (a deposit, etc.)
: to visit (on a pilgrimage)
: to line (a coat)
: to bind (a criminal)

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コウ kou

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考: examine, test; investigate

By Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning

考 kǎo

verb
: to test; to examine
: to check; to verify
: to take an exam; to take an entrance exam for
: deceased father

Kun Reading

考え | かんがえ kangae

adverbial noun
: thinking; thought; ideas; intention

考える | かんがえる kangaeru

ichidan verb | transitive verb
: to consider; to think about

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考 | こう kou

noun
: thought
: (Noun suffix) report on one’s investigation into …
: deceased father

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