[關於康熙部首06] Chinese Etymology: 世/枼/葉/叶.
27 August 2014 [link youtube]
Chinese Etymology: A Fallen Leaf Marks an Era.
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character here is a symbol of an insect next
both in communicating the sense of "butterfly", are constructed. ascribed to characters make simple explanations textbook told you that no, this was "just symbol, used to mean butterfly. can see a character that means "flower", and see that it's a tree with an extra symbol screen, it seems easy to believe that the with an extra symbol at the top, even if we in one case, nor a resemblance to a leaf in to see a tree when you're looking at the tree thing you learn in studying the ancient characters to another, because the resemblance to the is a human arm, curving as it reaches downward, inverted, curving as it reaches upward. pictograph and the modern meanings of these between the ancient form and the modern writing-style. they still have a close resemblance, reflecting that logic is now unknown to us). ancient image of an arm is never used to actually of an arm, the word that actually means arm radical. foreigners learn Chinese in this way: learning the components and their meanings. more misleading than helpful, in encouraging categories that organize the dictionary. to learn in Chinese, partly because it so of businesses, and so on. time)", sometimes suggesting a generation a whole. about the symbol, they probably claimed that for the numeral 30. in both the modern standard script, and in resemblance to the modern character on the these two characters resemble each-other more however, that's just as spurious as saying doesn't resemble a flower, or complaining good reason at all. obsolete numeral created another problem in 30 isn't a radical, and is instead grouped of a better alternative. generation" could come from the numeral 30 between the characters) re-enforced by the dictionary. categorized under the numeral "one" --the impossible to guess the radical was the horizontal all of the connections between the component to believe (whether we're talking about ten, and doesn't pretend to have a category that people come to regard this symbol --in isolation-- then they read that meaning into the combined addition of the grass radical at the top, and the same meaning preserved. evidence you could hope for, and it isn't the link between the meaning of "leaf" and corroborates the link between leaves and the in time. in the ancient pictographs and corroborated extent, it should be easy for people to see the character for butterfly has a lot to do to do with the numeral 30, and so on. this symbol has disappeared in mainland China, assigned the sound and meaning to a totally has become invisible. component onto the character as a whole: even explained as if it were an indirect inference from the numerical sense of many generations of a leaf as a hint at the meaning of an-era-in-time. by looking at the characters (both ancient characters are obfuscated by modern dictionaries, insect associated with the leaf, and it makes with changing generations than it does for numeral. to just say, "this makes sense", because all and things that makes sense aren't true. become invisible in modern, simplified Chinese: the character for the butterfly was not. same arbitrary symbol for a leaf (replacing as this example meaning butterfly, but it inconsistencies that this sort of modern addition you'll encounter have instead tried to argue thirty, along with the suggestion that thirty it's not supported by oracle bones, nor any way the dictionaries are organized, and it you receive (if any) from teachers and textbooks have to cope with the dictionaries. to the numeral 30, I did present one contrasting numeral can be derived from almost any symbol for why or how the image of an arm reaching the Chinese language.
both in communicating the sense of "butterfly", are constructed. ascribed to characters make simple explanations textbook told you that no, this was "just symbol, used to mean butterfly. can see a character that means "flower", and see that it's a tree with an extra symbol screen, it seems easy to believe that the with an extra symbol at the top, even if we in one case, nor a resemblance to a leaf in to see a tree when you're looking at the tree thing you learn in studying the ancient characters to another, because the resemblance to the is a human arm, curving as it reaches downward, inverted, curving as it reaches upward. pictograph and the modern meanings of these between the ancient form and the modern writing-style. they still have a close resemblance, reflecting that logic is now unknown to us). ancient image of an arm is never used to actually of an arm, the word that actually means arm radical. foreigners learn Chinese in this way: learning the components and their meanings. more misleading than helpful, in encouraging categories that organize the dictionary. to learn in Chinese, partly because it so of businesses, and so on. time)", sometimes suggesting a generation a whole. about the symbol, they probably claimed that for the numeral 30. in both the modern standard script, and in resemblance to the modern character on the these two characters resemble each-other more however, that's just as spurious as saying doesn't resemble a flower, or complaining good reason at all. obsolete numeral created another problem in 30 isn't a radical, and is instead grouped of a better alternative. generation" could come from the numeral 30 between the characters) re-enforced by the dictionary. categorized under the numeral "one" --the impossible to guess the radical was the horizontal all of the connections between the component to believe (whether we're talking about ten, and doesn't pretend to have a category that people come to regard this symbol --in isolation-- then they read that meaning into the combined addition of the grass radical at the top, and the same meaning preserved. evidence you could hope for, and it isn't the link between the meaning of "leaf" and corroborates the link between leaves and the in time. in the ancient pictographs and corroborated extent, it should be easy for people to see the character for butterfly has a lot to do to do with the numeral 30, and so on. this symbol has disappeared in mainland China, assigned the sound and meaning to a totally has become invisible. component onto the character as a whole: even explained as if it were an indirect inference from the numerical sense of many generations of a leaf as a hint at the meaning of an-era-in-time. by looking at the characters (both ancient characters are obfuscated by modern dictionaries, insect associated with the leaf, and it makes with changing generations than it does for numeral. to just say, "this makes sense", because all and things that makes sense aren't true. become invisible in modern, simplified Chinese: the character for the butterfly was not. same arbitrary symbol for a leaf (replacing as this example meaning butterfly, but it inconsistencies that this sort of modern addition you'll encounter have instead tried to argue thirty, along with the suggestion that thirty it's not supported by oracle bones, nor any way the dictionaries are organized, and it you receive (if any) from teachers and textbooks have to cope with the dictionaries. to the numeral 30, I did present one contrasting numeral can be derived from almost any symbol for why or how the image of an arm reaching the Chinese language.