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The meaning of a Chinese character is the morpheme meaning recorded in it. The meaning of a single-character word is its character meaning. The meaning of a multi-character word is generally derived from the meanings of the characters. The main ways to combine character meanings into word meanings include: [ 16][ 17]
Yin and yang ( English: / jɪn /, / jæŋ / ), also yinyang[ 1][ 2] or yin-yang, [ 3][ 2] is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle. Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary and at the same time opposing forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the ...
J. Paul Getty, one of the twelve famous people George Ohsawa claimed were suffering from sanpaku because of visible sclerae under their irises. [1]Sanpaku gan (三白眼; Chinese: 三白眼; pinyin: Sānbáiyǎn) or sanpaku (三白) is a Japanese term meaning "three whites", most often used in English to refer to a folk belief according to which the visibility of the sclera above or under the ...
Fajia (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: fǎjiā), or the School of fa (laws,methods), often translated as Legalism, [1] is a school of mainly Warring States period classical Chinese philosophy, whose ideas contributed greatly to the formation of the bureaucratic Chinese empire, and Daoism as prominent in the early Han.
In the case of a family who had already lost a child, the parents may name the next child Alter and Alte (both meaning "old" in Yiddish) [35] in an effort to confuse the Angel of Death. [36] Another example is Nekras ( Некрас , "not handsome" in Russian) which was given with the hope the child would be handsome.
The Traditional Chinese characters for the word huài dàn (坏蛋/壞蛋), a Mandarin Chinese profanity meaning, literally, "bad egg". Profanity in Mandarin Chinese most commonly involves sexual references and scorn of the object's ancestors, especially their mother. Other Mandarin insults accuse people of not being human.
An epicanthic fold or epicanthus[ 6] is a skin fold of the upper eyelid that covers the inner corner (medial canthus) of the eye. [ 3] However, variation occurs in the nature of this feature and the possession of "partial epicanthic folds" or "slight epicanthic folds" is noted in the relevant literature. [ 7][ 8][ 9] Various factors influence ...
Yuán ( traditional Chinese: 緣; simplified Chinese: 缘; pinyin: yuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân) or Yuanfen ( traditional Chinese: 緣分; simplified Chinese: 缘分; pinyin: yuánfèn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân-hūn ), "fateful coincidence," is a concept in Chinese society describing good and bad chances and potential relationships. [ 1]