• @isyasad
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    114 months ago

    Chinese and Japanese would have so many. My favorite is probably 緑 which means green. I also like the simplified Chinese horse: 马. Special shoutout to 凸 meaning convex, 凹 meaning concave, and 凸凹 meaning bumpy (not sure if this is true in Chinese). There’s thousands to choose from so of course there are a lot of other handsome one-character words, but those are the first few I thought of.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      I like how 看 (kan, to look) is composed of the radical for “hand” over the radical for “eye”. It’s basically representing someone doing this 🫡 to look at something