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earliest classification, Erh ya, seems to have been compiled about the eleventh century B.C. It is a collection of terms and phrases arranged under nineteen categories. According to tradition, about the ninth
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Tafel 4.
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Fig.55 Specimens of Chinese ornamental and magical faney scripts
