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    26 days ago

    For anyone as slow as I am: the symbols in the matrix are all made of two hanzi each, by combining the individual hanzi from the vectors with each other.

    Btw, this combining quality is said to be the reason why Chinese manufacturers tend to print awful-looking English (and other Western languages) on labels and in manuals: since hanzi are all monospace but can be smooshed to combine with each other, Chinese people don’t really care about proportions in the characters. So they use their monospace hanzi fonts with weird monospace English characters in them, stretch or squeeze them as they see fit, and call it a day.