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>峠 "mountain pass" Incidentially, the backstory behind that kanji is hilarious. The kanji is composed of the kanjis for "mountain" on the left side, and "up"
by Dalewyn 4y ago
>峠 "mountain pass"
Incidentially, the backstory behind that kanji is hilarious.
The kanji is composed of the kanjis for "mountain" on the left side, and "up" and "down" on the upper right and lower right sides respectively.
You know what a mountain pass does? Go up and down a mountain.
- Macha 4y agoThis is how a lot of kanji are formed. For example 町 (town) is 田 (rice paddy) + 丁 (street). I guess at some point in language formation a lot of towns were primarily collections of rice paddies.