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Re:Four Types of Kanji (2019) by greggman3 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:46PM (#25285492)
- 凸 convex

- 凹 concave

- 凸凹 bumpy

- 串 skewer, 心 heart、患 ill/disease

- 王 king, 玉 ball, 宝 treasure. The King's balls are his treasure

- 男 man, 女 woman, 嬲 ridicule/tease

- 敬 respect, 馬 horse, 驚 surprise (it's surprising to respect a horse)

Re:Four Types of Kanji (2019) by coolgod on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:23AM (#25286063)
Many of the explanation you listed are incorrect like 宝 and 驚.
Re:Four Types of Kanji (2019) by tanjtanjtanj on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:51AM (#25289351)
They are correct for Japanese, probably not so much for Chinese.
Re:Four Types of Kanji (2019) by coolgod on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:19PM (#25295139)
Please provide some sources for your claim. I don't follow your logic on how 宝 means treasure in Japanese because "The King's balls are his treasure", and not because the character and its meaning was adopted from Chinese.
Re:Four Types of Kanji (2019) by greggman3 on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:26AM (#25303273)
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that "ball under roof" means "the king's balls are his treasure". Rather it's just an easy way to remember the characters. I have no idea of the history of those characters but it is funny that 王 means king and 玉 means ball and just happens to look like king with a mark on the lower half suggesting the kings balls and that "ball under roof" 宝 means treasure.
Re:Four Types of Kanji (2019) by pezezin on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:16AM (#25299837)
Also interesting is that 男 (man) is a combination of 田 (rice field) and 力 (power or strength)