TechnoZi: chinese language

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Friday, 10 June 2016

DIAO and CARVING

#diao #hanzi #sculpture #chinese #kanji

I noticed while researching this Chinese dictionaries databases and lexicons print or we preferred the character on the left whereas other dialects and languages preferred the right hand version which doesnt include the meaning of raptor bird though the use of three strokes doesnt remind me of the marks made by a chisel!

If you've ever see how raptor birds stab and tear at meat you'll understand while this word has a second meaning and usage. Next week more sculpture!

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Tuesday, 10 May 2016

DING VESSEL

A new sequence on #Tripods in Chinese Art starting with the #Ding #radical #hanzi #kanji

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Friday, 27 November 2015

TWO CATS

#twocats #chinese #cats #hanzi #japanese #asianlanguage

Note the elements of this character: the cat is a ferocious small predator that comes near rice fields or the dog/ animal + rice field

I wonder if cats once hunted snakes and eels and other food in rice paddies?

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Saturday, 31 October 2015

What kind of animal?

WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL IS RADICAL 153?

Truly People I've seen so many different definitions given?

The one constant factor seems to be its use in characters describing small felid or mustelid or viverid predators though some of those species get written with characters using a dog component.

There's probably going to be a PhD thesis granted for some linguist tracing this character in ancient texts and sorting out why and when so many animals ended up having their names being written with the dog radical instead!

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Thunderclap

After last week's appalling weather in #sydney I decided to see what other words apart from LEI the #Chinese language uses to describe #thunder.

One database informs me that this word is frequently used in combination with PI .

Sunday, 17 August 2014

RIVER CHUAN Copyright Julie Vaux

Both images copyright ot Julie Vaux 2014

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Hippo+

Many English words use hippo+ as a prefix to indicate a word has something to do with horse or the eque+ as in equestrian.

Modern Chinese and other languages generally use compounds with MA but there's also this less common word.

a note on the two variants given for the MIN dialects.

I have access to one online lexicon that favours Taiwanese MIN usage and I also own an old reference book, a kind of mini dictionary of Hokkien Amoy as used in the Straits area. Pinyin Qi 2 equals WG ch'i2.

Saturday, 14 June 2014

My Little Pony

I couldn't resist the pun.

Monday, 2 June 2014

I have a question for my few and faithful readers?

I'm thinking horse plus horse implies that atame horse is not one fresh from Central Asia or the Steppes but a horse of the Riverlands and valleys of Northern China.

I'ld be interested in learning if there was ever a variant of this character in which instead of river the sign of a prefecture or province showing dots between the strokes was used?

Saturday, 24 May 2014

LI is a black horse

My first new technozi after a long break caused by a broken arm.

My next sequence will be equine words!

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

PARROT

Another note there seems to be no SinoViet loan word from any Chinese dialects. VET appears to be Austroasiatic.

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Wildfire

Continuing our FIRE sequence

Something we've had a problem with lately in Sydney

Friday, 25 October 2013

Copper 9285

9285 is the Unihan / code number more info in my next post.

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Gong BOW Radical 57

Tuesday, 8 October 2013

ZINE

Thursday, 26 September 2013

KAN radical 17 the open vessel

Monday, 23 September 2013

Tun Town

Yes if you're wondering there are reputable scholars who have speculated on whether this is a loan word from Indo European *Dunos though how the word got to Eastern Asia when it's not used in Tocharian or Sogdian ... ?