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... the Two Chinese Characters are here to help. Seriously, we've seen this cartoon sent around the Internet a million times, but we had no idea the logo of the Beijing Olympics was meant to be a stylised form of the character for "jing" (京).
... the Two Chinese Characters are here to help. Seriously, we've seen this cartoon sent around the Internet a million times, but we had no idea the logo of the Beijing Olympics was meant to be a stylised form of the character for "jing" (京).
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"we had no idea the logo of the Beijing Olympics was meant to be a stylised form of the character for "jing" (京)."
I'm surprised. I have seen that trivia point in many publications already. It is quite a good logo actually, regardless of the origin.