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How did Gutenberg's moveable type differ from Chinese moveable type?
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∙ 11y ago
In the Chinese character set, each character represents a whole word...which is why there are so many Chinese characters. In Western languages like English and German, words are made of multiple characters. So Gutenberg's type would have been different from Chinese type for that reason alone.
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