phonetic map : 弱 ruo
goulnik
November 13, 2008, 02:50 PM posted in General Discussion| ruo | ||
| 弱 ruò weak; feeble / young; less ** 弱点 ruòdiǎn weak point; weakness 弱弟 ruòdì young brother |
篛 ruò tender young cattails 篛席 ruòxí rush mat made of arum |
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| 搦 nuò to grasp; provoke 捉搦 zhuōnuò to apprehend; arrest 搦战 nuòzhàn to challenge to fight |
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| niao | ||
| * 溺 niào urine/ to urinate ** 便溺 biànniào human excretion 遗溺 yíniào incontinence |
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| * 溺 nì to drown; indulge 溺沉 nìchén to submerge 饥溺 jīnì extreme hunger 溺爱 nì'ài to spoil (a child) |
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** 弱 a bit/little less than (following a fraction/decimal) as in 三分之一弱 a bit less than one-third
** 溺 also == 尿 niào/suī
changye
November 13, 2008, 11:40 PMHi goulniky,
Judging from your new avatar, Mr. Aramaki, I guess you've seen Ghost in the Shell (攻壳机动队) before!
goulnik
November 14, 2008, 07:09 AMchangye, I expected you would notice ;-)
郭 in the shell 哈哈 (goulniky AKA 郭力毅)
what's the kanji for Mr.Aramaki again?
goulnik
November 14, 2008, 07:45 AMgot it, Daisuke Aramaki 荒巻大輔 (Huāngjuǎn Dàfǔ) chief of Public Security ... uh
changye
November 14, 2008, 07:56 AMAramaki Daisuke= 荒巻大輔
Kusanagi Motoko = 草薙素子
changye
November 13, 2008, 01:05 PMIt's interesting to know that the character "溺 "(niao4) was also used with the sense of "尿" (niao4, urinate) in ancient Chinese. As shown in the table above, the original meaning of "溺" (ni4) is "to drown", and therefore you can easily imagine circumstances under which a poor child almost drowned in a pond of his own urine on the bed, which I think is a "plausible" etymology, haha!