Thursday, October 9, 2014

0067 弱


This character means ‘weak.’ In Japanese it’s pronounced JAKU or yowai, and in Chinese it’s ruò.

The archaic character below looks almost exactly like today’s version:

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Sears gives a wonderful and very easy-to-see explanation: it’s a picture of two wings of  a baby bird. And what could be weaker than that?

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