A5 Tian Zi Ge Notebook standing closed, plum cover with a library-shelf motif reversed out, ruled character squares inside.

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Tian Zi Ge Notebook

A5 character-practice grid: each square 14.01 millimetres, quartered by a dashed cross, twelve rows to the page.

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Specification

Type: Notebook
Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 120
Leaves: 60
Sheets: 30
Signatures: 6 × 20pp
Spine: 6.86 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: tianzige
Ruling pitch: 14.01 mm · 39.70 pt
Rows per page: 12
Dating: Undated

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Each square in this ruling is cut twice: once by the solid outline that fixes its edge, and once by a dashed cross running through the centre, both ways. A character written inside the square has something to measure its own proportion against, rather than a blank box where the middle is wherever the hand decides it is.

The square is 14.01 millimetres, twelve rows to a page. A how-to-use page explains the two kinds of line, solid and dashed, before the first ruled page arrives, and one hundred and nine pages of the grid follow it. A short run of plain lined pages closes the book, for a translation or a note that does not belong inside a square.

The cross does not know if the character is correct. It only gives the stroke a centre to be measured against, which is a different thing from being right.

What is inside

Practice: 109pp; Each square quartered by a dashed cross, solid outline, 14.01 mm, twelve rows to the page.
Reference: 11pp; A how-to-use page for the ruling, conversion tables computed from definitions, and the pen test leaf.

In every book

The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.

How to use it: One page describing this book, not a different one.
This book belongs to: One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
My details: Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
Emergency numbers: Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
Point at this: A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
World map: Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
Conversion tables: Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
Pen test leaf: The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

What is inside this book?

Five pages from the Tian Zi Ge Notebook shown as cards: how-to-use page, divider, quartered-square practice page, lined notes page, conversion table page. — Five pages from the print file: the how-to-use page, a section divider, a ruled practice page with its quartered squares, a plain lined page from the back, and the conversion table. The dashed cross is the detail an ordinary square grid leaves out.

Specification card for the Tian Zi Ge Notebook: cell pitch 14.01 mm, twelve rows per page, one hundred twenty pages total, A5 trim. — A how-to-use page opens the book, then one hundred and nine pages ruled into character squares, 14.01 millimetres each, twelve rows to the page, quartered by a dashed cross. A short run of plain lined pages sits at the back for anything the grid does not fit. Eleven pages of furniture, including conversion tables computed from definitions. A5, one hundred and twenty pages.

Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book. — Tian Zi Ge Notebook — Conversion tables

Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival. — Tian Zi Ge Notebook — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Tian Zi Ge Notebook — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Tian Zi Ge Notebook — Point at this

Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart. — Tian Zi Ge Notebook — World map

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