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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by thaumasiotes on Sunday September 04, 2016 @06:12AM (#12423636)
So what? 木 means wood now. (Well, no it doesn't. 木头 means wood now. 木 is not a word in modern Chinese.) It meant tree, which is relevant to the construction of 森, 本, 休, 树, etc.

It took me all of a few seconds to look up the proverb 独木不成林 "one tree alone is not a forest". What do you think the 木 means there?

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by Gigablah on Sunday September 04, 2016 @06:49AM (#12423717)
> 木 is not a word in modern Chinese

Eh, 木 is used commonly by itself.

这张椅子是用木做的。 (This chair is made of wood)

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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by thaumasiotes on Sunday September 04, 2016 @06:41PM (#12427071)
Fair enough.
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Re:Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? by nicholas73 on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:36AM (#12424011)
Maybe it's tongue-in-cheek, as the word for forest is made of two woods...
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