both having the radical for female, as well as the radical for "cause/opportunity" and "darkness/confusion", which when put together, can roughly translates into, hahaha, marriage is the opportunity for emotional darkness and the cause of psychological confusion. Heh. I never actually looked at these words this way. Wow. This is fun.
::grins and nods:: also fun is watching the permutation of what I mentally call 'action' symbols across the radicals themselves. For intance, most of the actions have what looks like a stylized 'x'. 'hand' is a lid on 'action', 'writing' is a lid on 'hand', 'net' is two actions stuck in a 'border', 'strike' is action plus 'legs'.
What makes this further interesting is that this makes (via forms only) 'woman' a truncation of action (the horizontal lid), where as 'man' is half an action (the lines never cross).
Re: man talking about chinese is pure fun
::grins and nods:: also fun is watching the permutation of what I mentally call 'action' symbols across the radicals themselves. For intance, most of the actions have what looks like a stylized 'x'. 'hand' is a lid on 'action', 'writing' is a lid on 'hand', 'net' is two actions stuck in a 'border', 'strike' is action plus 'legs'.
What makes this further interesting is that this makes (via forms only) 'woman' a truncation of action (the horizontal lid), where as 'man' is half an action (the lines never cross).
::grins::