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wyldrstallyns 25 points 3 months ago

I'm no expert, but it was described to me years ago by native Chinese speakers that many of the characters are written like that 🤩 "Man", "woman", "cart", "gate/door", etc. Pictograph origins🖖🏼.

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Not_mikey 12 points 3 months ago

heres those kanji for reference:

Person: 人

Man: 男

Woman:　女

Cart:　車

Gate:　門

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wyldrstallyns 1 point 3 months ago

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Not_mikey 1 point 3 months ago

I think the lower part カ I think means power, so field power, ie. A man has the power to plow a field

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wyldrstallyns 2 points 3 months ago

Ah! I had them mixed up, as sword seems a very close relative: 刀 vs. カ

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ShinkanTrain 24 points 3 months ago

That little top part (冎) is the how it was originally drawn. It's supposed to look like a bone. It's more pronounced in the earlier drawings.

The bottom part (which is the kanji for moon and month) as a radical often means something like "flesh", and is present in the kanji for body parts.

So I don't think the whole thing was intended to be the pictograph of a skellington, or at least can't say for sure.

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jdr 8 points 3 months ago

That's what all 203 of my bones look like anyway

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chellomere 4 points 3 months ago

a skellington

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AlfalFaFail 3 points 3 months ago

So one the unique things about 月 is it contains several other character depending the context. In this case, 月 represents 肉 or flesh. My interpretation of the character is the bones that suspends flesh.

Here's more context specific transformations of 月 in other characters

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manuallybreathing 10 points 3 months ago

黽 黾

měng is a Chinese character for frog or toad

another one i'm a bit blown away by but might not be totally accurate

狗

Guo, for dog, is like a dog lieing down, 犭, the character for mouth, 口 and the character meaning 'wrap' 勹, like your arms wrapped around your mouth talking to a dog, who obviously understands you

I also really like

看

kàn meaning 'to look', which is the character for hand 手 above the character for eye 目 🫡

I've been practaticing a lot this year and I'm finally starting to get some of this to click

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ChaoticNeutralCzech 8 points 3 months ago

Well, how do you think most ideographics were created? Graphical representation of an idea.

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pianoplant 8 points 3 months ago

Odd that the 'head' is mirrored. The real kanji is 骨。agree it looks like a lil skeleton guy though.

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nagaram 39 points 3 months ago

Am I loosing it?

It looks the same. Not mirrored at all

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CyberSeeker 20 points 3 months ago

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gid 10 points 3 months ago

Thank you! I couldn't work out how it was backwards when every version I saw of it looked the same.

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wyldrstallyns 0 points 3 months ago

Losing*, ironically. 😜

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SpaceNoodle 0 points 3 months ago

No, they're tightening it.

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ChaoticNeutralCzech 14 points 3 months ago

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dosboy0xff 12 points 3 months ago

It's a Unicode CJK variant. There are a bunch of characters that Unicode considers to be the same character but with small regional differences (e.g. how it's written in Mainland China vs. Taiwan vs. Japan vs. Korea, etc.). Since the region isn't encoded in the character, you're seeing whatever your system locale and font default to. For web pages, you can specify the region inside the HTML or HTTP headers and hopefully you get the correct character rendering, but that also requires you to have a font installed that includes the variant.

https://www.typotheque.com/...

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pianoplant 2 points 3 months ago

Fascinating, thanks!

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Alcoholicorn 8 points 3 months ago

Google translate shows the character backwards, for some reason.

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pianoplant 8 points 3 months ago

Seems simplified Chinese uses that version. But Kanji is Japanese.

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Alcoholicorn 0 points 3 months ago

Japanese: 骨

Simplified: 骨

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Andonome 13 points 3 months ago

both kanji bone guys look the same

This is what I see.

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Rentlar 7 points 3 months ago

Try ⾻ (ideograph U+2FBB) vs. 骨 (CJK "bone" used in Asian Typography, different Asian fonts may show differently).

screenshot table from Wikitionary

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CyberSeeker 3 points 3 months ago

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ripcord 3 points 3 months ago

Weird, on my phone the character rendered like it is in the picture

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lyralycan 5 points 3 months ago

What's bone daddy?

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jdr 5 points 3 months ago

Nm, what's bone witchu?

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Kolanaki 4 points 3 months ago

A lot of characters in Asian languages look like the thing the symbol represents. Can't remember which language it was, but it has characters for "house," "home," and "family" that all look like slight variations to a simple drawing of a house.

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SkunkWorkz 4 points 3 months ago

There are thousands of Asian languages. Chinese and Japanese are the only languages that still use a logographic system. Korean also uses Chinese characters but only for special purposes, like academia.

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rumba 2 points 3 months ago

yeah that's what gets me, like it would make getting context easy, but remembering which fine detail just won't stick in my head.

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Impractical_Island 3 points 3 months ago

New Binding of Isaac familiar just dropped.

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frunch 2 points 3 months ago

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Mwa 1 point 3 months ago

Creative ngl.

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ripcord 2 points 3 months ago

Why would you lie about that

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Mwa -1 points 3 months ago

huh?

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smh 2 points 3 months ago

NGL=not gonna lie

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