Character-geeking

[azurelunatic]

AKICIF.

I wonder if the combination of the character for "mouth" on top of the character for "woman" has a pre-existing meaning. I know "mouth" on "man" is "elder brother".

I wonder what the characters for "internet" are. "Mouth-woman on the internet" is a relatively apt description of me, eh?

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[wibbble]

akicif is actually a local here, and thus a member of edinburgers.

Randomly.

[literaltruth.livejournal.com]

Woman in Chinese characters is 女人(nü ren, lit. "female preson"), man is 男人(nan ren, lit. "male person")。 There are no words that contain these characters as a radical underneath the word for mouth (口，kou - and that's not displaying incorrectly if you can just see a square). Older brother is 哥哥（Gege). Internet is 网络 (wang luo)。 I don't know what the individual characters mean.

[azurelunatic]

Hmm. Now how did I get the idea into my head that those together meant that? Perhaps I got Dad's Japanese books tangled up with the Chinese ones?

I'm seeing question marks on my screen, but I know the shape of ren and kou, at least...