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US Sinophile traces the evolution of Chinese words

By Zhang Lei | China Daily | Updated: 2013-10-08 07:16

Online etymology database helps netizens learn origins of language

For 20 years Richard Sears has been devoted to making the etymological information of Chinese characters available online for people to trace them back to their original form, when they were first carved or written on bamboo slips or silk more than 2,000 years ago.

Although the 62-year-old launched his website in 2002, it elicited little response from Chinese netizens until last year, when two Chinese newspapers published his story.

US Sinophile traces the evolution of Chinese words

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