Kanji mood theme

[pne]

I thought I'd play around with custom mood themes and create a kanji mood theme (alphabetical order by mood name, tree view showing which mood inherits from which).

Edit: You're welcome to use my mood theme images! But if you do so, please copy them to a server of your own so you're not using my bandwidth. I'm providing a ZIP file and a tarball with the images so you can upload them all at once rather than having to copy one at a time from the moodtheme listing. Pick one archive or the other; both contain the same files. The tarball is smaller (6K vs 16K), but the ZIP file is probably easier to work with if you're on a Windows system.

The file also contains a file called "console.txt" that contains the commands necessary to set up the mood theme; just replace "http://moodthemes.mizinamo.org/kanjitheme/" with the URL you have uploaded the images to and "17068" with the number of your mood theme, then paste the entire file into the box in the admin console.

Oh, and if you use my mood theme, I'd appreciate it if you drop me a line (email address is in my userinfo) to say so, just so I have an idea of how many people use it.

Edit 2: There's now also a set of kanjitheme images in white-on-transparent-black, for use on dark backgrounds. Fetch it as a ZIP file or a tarball.

Comments

Hànzì mood themes

[pne.livejournal.com]

Some of them may be Japanese simplifications.

Incidentally, over at Blurty (http://www.blurty.com/), someone made an entire mood theme in Chinese (http://www.blurty.com/moodlist.bml?moodtheme=9). In colour, even! This one has multi-character moods; I tried to restrict mine to one each.

[bride.livejournal.com]

Some of them may be Japanese simplifications.

Ah, no wonder I had trouble finding some of them =)

I don't like the Blurty set as much. They're too big, the grammar is inconsistent and some of the expressions are too regional/colloquial for me. I like yours much better. Maybe I'll do my own Chinese set with one character like yours =)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough Chinese to be able to tell, but I wonder whether the guy who made the Blurty set simply used an English-Chinese dictionary to get the words.

Are there any particular characters you have problems with? Here are a couple that may be a bit troublesome:

恋 = 戀; 変 = 變; 芸 = 藝; 楽 = 樂; 酔 = 醉; 騒 = 騷

Also, 働 is a Japanese-created character that means "to work".

[will21cn.livejournal.com]

I don't know Japanese but some of the characters do not seem to be appropriate, if in Chinese. I am not sure whether the meanings of some Chinese and Japanese kanji characters are so distinct. For example, 騷 in Chinese is far away from "annoyed". I would say "horny" is close ;)

[bride.livejournal.com]

Really? That's interesting. I've always known to mean "expressing annoyance"...

[will21cn.livejournal.com]

I believe that it is VERY different as an individual character in Chinese. If anyone describes himself/herself 騷, something must be wrong.

[sakura-no-kage.livejournal.com]

可能他的"骚"是说"老骚包" :D