Re: NIN Kanji

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| On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:28:00 GMT, Faux_Pseudo
|<Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> spewed forth the following:
|
|>> i was looking through my book of Kanji yesterday and i stumbled upon a
|>> 7-stroke character  "NIN" that means "to bear pain" or "to endure".  found
|>> it intriguing.
|
| You want something intriguing?  See if your kanji book has the kanji
| for the "utsu" in "yuuutsu."  I doubt it'll have it -- it's about a
| 29-stroke kanji that almost always carries furigana (at least whenever
| I've seen it like in the newspapers and stuff it does).

Do you mean Geki? I am counting around 20 but mostly it looks
like juat a combo of other smaller symbles like the one for
wheel and hand which makes since if you think of it as a quick moving
hand (it means attacking or hitting)


| Another cool one that I like is the old kanji for "kame" (the new one
| is a simplified version of the old one).  See if you can find it --
| it's one of the rare kanji that actually somewhat looks like what it's
| supposed to represent.

It has been my experiance that a lot of the kanji symboles (especially
the esential ones) look a lot like what they represent
                   __
      |    Tree   |__| Moon
    --|--         |__| which with very little work looks a lot like a
     /|\          |  | cresent moon.
      |           / ,/                          Mountain
      |                                       |
                        :F_P:               |_|_|
    _______           ___
     |___|    Ear      _/    Child
     |___|           __\___            |  female
     |__--"            |            ___/___
    -"   |            -|               \/
                                       /\       
                                      /  \

With just a touch of work each of these looks like what
it represents and if you can do it in little obasciis then
it is even easier in print.

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