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囍 character

gattosilvestro   June 4th, 2009 7:50a.m.

I've just discovered this character.
A friend here in China told me that this character, also called "“红双喜”, it's a very important character in Chinese culture. I found it drawn in a big painting in a restaurant and also on a pack of cigarettes.
There's a wikipedia page about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Happiness_(calligraphy)

It's not in the skritter vocabulary, I think it should be added ;)

百发没中   June 5th, 2009 2:31a.m.

Definitely quite important..I believe the house of my in-laws in China is still plastered with that character....ever since our wedding there.

Maybe it's not worth a list because I can't think of that many but there are a bunch of characters that you see all the time meaning good luck etc. including the double happiness and that character always hanging upside down.

nick   June 6th, 2009 6:11p.m.

It's on the list of characters to be whipped up, now. Yeah!

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