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sword/power - man
sitting - woman
stretched wide - big
must be looking east - east
concept.
= train
= telephone
stopped making new Kanji compounds before
the computer came along. But electric + word
should equal web page, don't you think?
helpful Read Japanese Today - a fun book to take with you on the
subway to start to decode some of the Kanji around you. If you learn
Kanji, you might be able to read some things in Chinese, though
there are occasionally differences in meaning. For example, in
Japanese, hand-paper means letter, and in Chinese, hand-paper
means toilet tissue.
China in the 6th century, they have meanings associated with them
(not so much phonetic sounds). American poet Ezra Pound be-
lieved he could decipher the pictographs at the root of these charac-
ters; he actually managed to be correct some of the time. Here's a
few samples, see if you can trace the visual representation here:
side - eye
with legs - to look
side - mother