I want the most ancient characters and best representation of our words for "this book is good luck"
I want ancient Chinese characters for my new course book on the small common words of English. Can you help me? This book is going to be great!

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I want the most ancient characters and best representation of our words for "this book is good luck"
I want ancient Chinese characters for my new course book on the small common words of English.  Can you help me?  This book is going to be great!

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Do you mean "Classical Chinese" (文言文)？If so, may be you can use "此书甚妙". However, only one sentence cannot express the Classical Chinese's style. So, using a Chinese idiom like "洛阳纸贵" is better. Hope this addresses your question.

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Read this wiki on Chinese character history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification

If you scroll down, you'll read about the Oracle Bone Script, the origin of some 600 modern Chinese characters, pertaining to the pictogram style. The other characters are ideographic.

If you can find a book that shows all the words you are looking for in this script, I think you'll be happy with it. Good luck!

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What do you mean "ancient"? Are you referring to "Traditional Chinese Characters?" Get Google IME. With that you can toggle between simplified and traditional.

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most ancient characters?  You mean the ancient fonts or the most ancient terms to say it?  If it is fonts , you'll need ancient fonts installed on your computer to be able to display them I think!

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nothing better than "开卷有益"

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