• PointAndClique [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Yes, I also came by to say this (and reply to acabjones below re. Pleco). Pleco has the bottom component as 朩 deng3, reference in image below:

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      Edit: that being said, I really admire OP for their curiousity and intuition to break down the characters manually, even if they don't arrive at the correct result every time. It will put them in a fantastic place for the rest of their Chinese learning.

    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Thanks, I was learning from a native speaker, so they may have just misremembered. I appreciate that!

  • acabjones@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Highly recommend the android app Pleco for character decomposition, and many other things. Extremely useful and fascinating.

    • urshanabi [he/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I might be wrong but the 子 radical and 好 was told to me to be good by my Mandarin teacher because it's like, harmony. Like woman and person or woman and child or something. It's like good is when there's a balance and not one extreme or the other.

      • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        The app hello Chinese said it's because having a wife and a child is good, lol

        I guess the original meaning is lost in 5000 years of history.

        • 新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, it does seem to be lost. Wiktionary has a couple theories. Here’s the first one:

          The widely accepted meaning of this character is that the characters for “female” (女) and “child” (子) were put together to form a compound because it was good for a woman to have a child.

  • ihaveibs@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Tea is one of my favorite characters, there is something so aesthetically pleasing about it. Please keep posting these!

  • conc@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I've been learning, recently learned tea. This is so cool, thank you!