Question

Chinese oracle bone inscriptions (甲骨文) over 3, 000 years old are now widely used as emojis (表情符號) by young WeChat users, thanks to a person who made them closer to people's life.

"The ancient characters are not as cool and far as they are supposed to be. 1. Now they could totally serve people's needs for online expression, " said the creator Chen Nan.

The 46-year-old teacher of fine arts at Tsinghua University has been working to make oracle bone inscriptions into emojis. For example, the character for "zui", which means " drunk" in English, was created to look like a stumbling (搖搖晃晃行走的) person. 2.

To make more people understand this old language, Chen made them on the postcards. 3. A cartoon video with oracle bone inscriptions created by him was watched 31 million times and shared 140, 000 times.

4. In 2016, the ancient font (字體) was included into the font library under his hard work to let the ancient words walk into people's life.

5. But Chen's research on the project still continues, as he plans to enlarge the library to 7, 000 characters. In the future, he will put the ancient characters into practice in education and the development of games and apps.

A. In fact, they are cute and humorous.

B. Now the library has 3, 500 characters.

C. He has also put them together with cartoon characters.

D. Such emojis have been well accepted by WeChat users.

E. Chen started to do such a job in a creative way 19 years ago.

Answer 1