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I'm confused too. Their posts brought up two points: 1. Y might be for yellow than axe. -- I agree but that remains a theory. 2. The designer likely used a
by thrdbndndn 3y ago
I'm confused too.
Their posts brought up two points:
1. Y might be for yellow than axe.
-- I agree but that remains a theory.
2. The designer likely used a clipart of axe by searching "axe" in Chinese ("斧头"). The exact image was found.
-- ..OK? Not sure how this means anything, let alone "solved".
To be fair, other comments in that 2017 threads confused me too, e.g.
> 1. The letter 'A' and an upside down Y-shaped character share the same key on a Chinese/English key board
I have no idea what's that "upside down Y-shaped character" is about, as a native-Chinese speaker.
- frogulis 3y agoI was wondering the same. After a little searching, I reckon they're referring to 人 on a keyboard using a dàyì layout. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayi_method https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayi_method My first thought was bopomofo ㄚ (which corresponds pleasingly to pinyin "a") but that's just a normally-oriented Y! And it sits on the other side of the keyboard anyway
- CRConrad 3y ago> I have no idea what's that "upside down Y-shaped character" is about The sibling post's "bopomofo" seems far more plausible, but if you're talking European alphabets, the Greek letter Lambda (for the L sound, AIUI) looks pretty much like an upside-down (lower-case) 'y'. Maybe one working hypothesis at the time was that the person set to find pics for the Chines pirate manufacturer looked at it the wrong way around, read it as a Lambda / L, and looked for pictures to illustrate that. Idunno, WAG.