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Re:KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order... by Dalewyn on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:52AM (#34896456)
>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.

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Re:KanjiVG – SVGs of Kanji character strokes including order... by Macha on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:44PM (#34899508)
This 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.
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