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Tag: kanji

  • Meaning of beauty in Japanese

    Tae Moriyama [author of Kanji Connections] gives the explanation of bi 美 = beauty. The way its cut in modern times it is indeed Tae’s explanation which looks factual. Its Big大+sheep羊. To a farmer’s eye the sheep is beautiful when its bigger.

  • Menaing of Kanji [漢字]

    I am trying to figure kan. 漢. This is the han dynasty. This is perhaps kan and han both because kshan = xan. Which leads to all possibilities accommodated. such as san, jian, yan, yang etc due to the alternation of consonants and vowels.

  • The 10-incarnations .. 10 numbers from one kanji

    Just now thinking about it more I wanted to compare all other digits and found that they are indeed present in this single kanji. In other words all digits were created from this single kanji, 西. In some way or other check that out >> 1一 , 2二, 3三, 4四, 5五, 6六, 7七, 8八, 9九,…