of greetings, and food.

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sometime a couple of days ago I remember finding out that the traditional Tazanian response to the greeting, "How are you?", is, "Strong."

In some parts of China, some parts of Beijing, one of the morning greetings is, "Have you eaten?"

I am practicing the chinese radicals, and I can't help but notice that "eat" is a permutation of "defiance".

huh.

Comments

[permetaform]

remove the 'hat' part of your 'eat'...

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but doesn't it mean "good"? I used to get that word for my gradings. You said permutation, I've been trying to search for a word that look like Liang and yet contain the defiant meaning.

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o.0, in my radicals lists (traditional) it's listed under the 6 strokes column as defiance...

ie. mouth with the two 'legs', dash in the middle for the right leg, dash at the end for the left leg.