The Chinese Character, an Interpretable Chinese Culture
- 电 (electricity)
Dian (电, Electricity) is a pictographic character. In its complex font, it is formed by an upper part “雨” indicating rain from the sky, and a lower part consisting of two clouds with an upright curve in between, which resembles the lightning we usually see in summer. Therefore, the original meaning of Dian is the lightning between clouds before a shower. However, in its simplified form,...
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豕 (pig)
In the oracle bone inscriptions, the character shi (豕) is like a side view of a pig standing upright. It is a pictographic character referring to a pig. Zhu (猪, also means pig), a variant of the original character, first appearing in the seal script, which was written as “豬”, with “豕” being a semantic radical and “者” an indication of its pronunciation (phonetic radical). The character “豕” is the archaic form of “猪”.
The Culture Implied in Chinese Characters
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The Paper-Cut for Window Decoration Featuring "the Fat Pig B
The paper-cut for window decoration featuring “the fat pig bringing good luck” is popular in...
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Presenting trotters is a wedding custom in and around Shaanxi Province. On the eve of the wedding, the...
List of the Chinese Characters
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“草(Cao, grass)” is a pictographic character in oracle bone inscriptions. It vividly resembles two blades of grass thrusting...
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In oracle bone script, the character depicts the scene when the sun is rising from the mountain. Nowadays, it expresses the rising...
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The character looks like a full bow in the oracle bone inscription. And in Shuowen Jiezi (Origin of Chinese Characters), it looks...
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"Dao" (刀) is a pictographic character that looks like a long knife in the oracle bone inscriptions. It is thus clear that there...
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In the oracle bone inscriptions, the character niu (牛) is like a simple sketch of an ox head, highlighting its horns and ears....
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“Chuang” (“窗”) was originally a pictographic character written like this ... in ancient Chinese books. The form is pretty...
