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Off topic but do you have a resource for your second paragraph? I find this etymology fascinating!
by matchbin 7y ago
Off topic but do you have a resource for your second paragraph? I find this etymology fascinating!
- nereye 7y agoNot sure if this is what you had in mind, but, for example: rain - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/雨 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/雨 field - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/田 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/田 thunder - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/雷 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/雷 rice - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/稲 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/稲 wife - https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/妻 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/妻 lightning - http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1MDJ%B0%F0%BA%CA http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1MDJ%B0%F0%BA%CA
- yorwba 7y agoThose would probably be more helpful as Wiktionary links: rain - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/雨 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/雨 field - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/田 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/田 thunder - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/雷 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/雷 Note that the "glyph origin" section describes 雷 as an ancient simplification of the phono-semantic compound 靁, where 畾 indicates the pronunciation. Any relation to rice paddies is probably a post-hoc rationalization. rice - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/稲 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/稲 wife - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/妻 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/妻 lightning - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/稲妻 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/稲妻
- segmondy 7y agoThis is actually common, folks think Kanji are random strokes, but they tell stories and tend to make sense. Understanding the relations makes it easy to remember.