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The word suicide in Chinese

A visitor ramou.net ask myself this question.

Question:

Let me once again to use your lights. I currently working on suicide Asians, but in online dictionaries, including the new China, there is no ideogram resulting suicide. In your opinion is this an oversight or the Chinese ideogram does not exist? In

is it the same in Japan?

Answer:

Most modern Chinese words composed of two characters in the same way as the French scientific words are often composed of two Greek or Latin roots. The word suicide is no exception: 自杀 (Zishe), literally killing ourselves (or sui- caedere ).

Ditto for Japan. Japanese words, in this case, are often from the Chinese, unless they themselves were created in Japan in early modern times, before being taken by the Chinese.

The Japanese word for suicide is 自杀 (Jisatsu), the same as Chinese. This may be a layer of the latin, created by the Japanese in the late nineteenth century.

Question: Could you tell me

decompose the characters: it is the right itself is left is a weapon that means killing? Japanese were the same except the 3rd right.

Answer:

自 (zi) means itself. This character represents the nose, front view. While a French, a Quebecer or a Gaul exclaim "that's me! "Pointing their index fingers on the chest, the Chinese or the Japanese show their nose (do the experiment!). According to a small house investigation, the nose is indeed the center of the face, which is itself the facade of consciousness. Also, when you talk to someone face to face, your nose is right in his line of sight, then he should squint to look at your chest. (Interpretation subject to change)

杀 (SHA) is the Chinese character (traditional) meaning kill. It has been manufactured, millennia ago, by adding two elements:

杀 represents an animal with long tails, whose pronunciation was the same as the word kill : it is the phonetic element.

殳 represents a hand (bottom) holding a club head stone or bronze (top) is the key semantics.

The combination of the two elements can be read as follows: a word that is pronounced like the animal in question and recalled that a hammer blow to the skull.

In ancient spelling, it is recognized more easily by hand [three fingers] (bottom right) topped with a kind of ax (upper right). The animal (left), we could not identify, appears to have a crest (top) and a beautiful tail divided into three parts (below). In the simplified modern character, it remains only the crest and tail.

Many modern Chinese characters were simplified in the abandonment of the key semantics. This is the case 杀 became 杀 in the 1960s. The strangest thing is that the remaining part is clearly think of two swords s'embrochent.

The traditional character is still used in Japanese (it is pronounced satsu, adapted from the ancient Chinese pronunciation).