{"id":1166,"date":"2005-08-19T01:53:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2005-08-20T13:03:51","modified_gmt":"2005-08-20T04:03:51","slug":"the-marvellously-entertaining-world-of-kanjis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/19\/the-marvellously-entertaining-world-of-kanjis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marvellously Entertaining World of Kanjis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clicking through some stuff<\/a> this morning, I stumbled upon somebody’s account of life in China, and in particular, a funny observation about hanzis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Turning now to Chinese characters: We are learning them again at last, and many make me pleased. The character for “to endure” is a knife held to a heart. A tomb is required to draw “antique.” There are other things, too, of course: the local glyphic idea of “peace” is a woman in a house, while that of “family” is a pig in a house. This surely explains either less or more than it purports to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like most people, I too struggle to give more or less apocryphal interpretations to kanjis in order to make them more memorable. Some of my findings are quite far-fetched<\/a>. Yet, this particular set never occurred to me before (as usual: mouse-over to get kanji pronunciation and meaning):<\/p>\n