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Drat the space between Too and Doo disappeared!
A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Showing posts with label dialect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dialect. Show all posts
Monday, 28 October 2013
Copper Tong
Drat the space between Too and Doo disappeared!
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
ZUN ONE the Hanzi
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The seal script form of this character shows instead of cun one or a pair of hands making an offering of a wine jar and you could also read the parts as being respect + hands or chief+hands or wine vessel plus hands.
I suspect the meaning centuries ago was originally what you offered the chief or local aristo a wine vessel possibly 8 jars literally which explain 8 over a wine vessel over a hand. The oldest form of cun shows a hand holding a stick signifying one item. However I'm not a Shang Dynasty Chinese scribe or one of the Han dynasty scholars who standardized the system of signs.
Perhaps taxes and tributes were paid as metal goods in the Shang Dynasty?
Please look at the next few posts about the component parts of this character.
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Royal wives and concubines - FEI
Fei is a word often translated as Princess but bear in mind it refers to someone who is bound in a relationship to another aristocrat. I rather suspect the radical tang form started with an aspirate p or it was something like that sound in Fuji that occassionally gets transliterated as a H so you see Huzi instead of Fuji in some texts.
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