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Yeah I'd also class 足 as a pictograph. It is a category error to put something like 足 (foot) or 母 (mother) as a 指事字 (what the article calls an indicator). 指事字
by dwohnitmok 6y ago
Yeah I'd also class 足 as a pictograph.
It is a category error to put something like 足 (foot) or 母 (mother) as a 指事字 (what the article calls an indicator). 指事字 are abstract things, like "up" (上), rather than concrete nouns.
- 4cao 6y agoAbsolutely. 足 is an augmentation of 止, which itself originated as a drawing of a foot. 母 is a picture of female breasts. Both are pictograms.