VIC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Proverb, Kua Fu
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Chinese charters are formed by 3 principals: pictures (pictorial) all characters have a picture in it, meaning 1 character has several parts and each part has a meaning. Creates another meaning when they come together: sound 1 part of the charter may have an original sound which is borrowed by the rest of the components. Quatrapod: made of copper, tin, and lead, how they discovered language, found many characters on the leg and in the inside. Character with a circle with a dot = sun . Top left characters mean sun, no, rain. Square with a cross in the middle = field . Character that looks like 2 men working plow. Bottom right characters plow/tail the land. 9= magic number in chinese: emperor is often referred to as the 9th dragon. 9 = idea of comparing 1 person to another. Made human beings/chinese people: with yellow mud and water.