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I thought Mitsubishi was 三菱 for Three Diamonds? Seems to go better with their log. Mitsuboshi, 三つ星, would I think be for three stars, particularly the stars of
by kurthr 2y ago
I thought Mitsubishi was 三菱 for Three Diamonds? Seems to go better with their log.
Mitsuboshi, 三つ星, would I think be for three stars, particularly the stars of Orion's belt.
"According to Samsung's founder, the meaning of the Korean hanja Samsung (三星) is three stars."
https://news.samsung.com/global/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-samsung https://news.samsung.com/global/20-things-you-didnt-know-abo...
- moandcompany 2y agoTechnically correct is the best kind of correct. Symbolically, in this context, they were seen as diamonds in the sky, aka stars :)
- nine_k 2y ago菱 is "water chestnut", a nut that actually is spiky, the <> figures are a stylization of that. 菱形, that is, "water chestnut-shaped" is indeed used for what's called "diamond-shaped" in English, maybe hence the confusion.