Home and Peace
Chinese is in itself a very interesting language, and the characters that make up this language gives a lot of indication of what is important to the people whose diaspora I belong to.
The Chinese for home is 家, composed of a rooftop 宀 and an animal 豕 underneath it. To the Chinese, as long as one has property (the animal) under a roof, one has a home. But, as any man married for long knows, it is not enough just to have a home. One must have peace in the home too. Hence the Chinese for peace is 安, comprising a rooftop 宀 and a woman 女 underneath it. To the Chinese, a woman under a roof gives peace. And of course, one must not forget that a disaster 灾 is a fire 火 underneath a rooftop 宀!
Chinese is cool!
The Chinese for home is 家, composed of a rooftop 宀 and an animal 豕 underneath it. To the Chinese, as long as one has property (the animal) under a roof, one has a home. But, as any man married for long knows, it is not enough just to have a home. One must have peace in the home too. Hence the Chinese for peace is 安, comprising a rooftop 宀 and a woman 女 underneath it. To the Chinese, a woman under a roof gives peace. And of course, one must not forget that a disaster 灾 is a fire 火 underneath a rooftop 宀!
Chinese is cool!
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