Career switch
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 30 December 2004 | Comments (1) | categories: Singapore
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Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 30 December 2004 | Comments (1) | categories: Singapore
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 18 December 2004 | Comments (0) | categories: After hours
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 11 December 2004 | Comments (0) | categories: After hours
If I need something to lighten my day I continue my studies of Chinese writing. Even simple words tell little stories, which makes them easy to remember:
The Chinese word for man/person is r��n: ���. It looks like somebody standing there with legs spread (for an marital arts exercise?). The sign for tree is Mù and looks like a tree with roots and branches: ���. Now imagine, that you are a hard working peasant in ancient China and you get tired? You would seek shelter from the summer sun by sitting or leaning under a tree. This would look like: ���. And in deed this is the word Xi�� which means rest.
Most of the little stories are as old as the Chinese language. Some of them told today would make excellent material for a discrimination law suite, but that is another story for another time.
Update 2013: for a complete list of this stories head over to Chineasy or check this book on Amazon:
Fun With Chinese Characters
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 04 December 2004 | Comments (0) | categories: Writing Chinese