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Public Typography alphabet by James Eberhard

"I noticed that some of the Chinese characters look a lot (or exactly) like certain letters of the english alphabet, most notably "Shui" (water), which looks like a "K". So basically I used the actual characters that look like letters, or parts of characters that look like letters, and put them in the context of the alphabet. They are not letters themselves, they are syllables or words in Chinese, so it would not make any sense to a Chinese-reader to spell with them, but they look cool."