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pazu -
For me I like those Chinese characters with lesser stroke but with a deeper meaning. I saw people
using very strange characters in their name which I actually dislike. (e.g. 陶 "吉吉" why
didn't he use 陶哲? It's the same character.)
One of my favorite characters is 如 (a woman with a mouth) it means "be like" but it has no
obvious meaning in itself I would prefer to have this word in my name. (But i SHOULD have told my
pa when I was still in my mother's womb!)
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samantha -
the words in the chinese names not exactly mean their own characters what you can find in
dictionary sometimes it shows the meaning inside the word. i think it's the same as english name
we can find the meaning of the each english name from the end of english-english dictionary. and
some parents think the number of the strokes are also important. especially in Hk taiwan and
villages at mainland
skylee -
The character "吉吉" cannot be shown properly here. Anyways unlike pazu I find such rare
characters elegant (although this character is the same in pronounciation and meaning as "哲").
skylee -
曱甴 (i.e. 蟑螂 aka 小強)
I do not know how these two characters are pronounced in Putonghua (they are "gat zat" in
Cantonese). I don't even know how to type them (I copied and pasted them here).
Why they are called 小強
Quote:
93年周星驰《唐伯虎点秋香》里，由于帮助唐伯虎顺利卖身进华府，被周星
视为亲密一家人；(其后)星爷“卖身葬小强”
cometrue -
Quote:
Originally Posted by skylee
曱甴 (i.e. 蟑螂 aka 小強)
I do not know how these two characters are pronounced in Putonghua (they are "gat zat" in
Cantonese). I don't even know how to type them (I copied and pasted them here).
Why they are called 小強
Quote:
93年周星驰《唐伯虎点秋香》里，由于帮助唐伯虎顺利卖身进华府，被周星
视为亲密一家人；(其后)星爷“卖身葬小强”
yue(1) you(2) beacase in that film the blackbeetle's name is xiao qiang all the younger
generation like zhou xing chi's film quote his words often so the saying is so popular.
im afraid the 曱甴 does'tn mean blcakbeetle in mandarin at least i have never heard about it.
Yang Guizi -
I'm sure you racially-hypersensitive 美国人 will love these characters:
卐 卍
I think that in meaning they are 10000 (万) or a buddhist "all things"
Anonymous -
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yang Guizi
I'm sure you racially-hypersensitive 美国人 will love these characters:
卐 卍
I think that in meaning they are 10000 (万) or a buddhist "all things"
That symbol has been used by Buddhism thousands of years before Adolf Hitler decided to use a
modified but similiar version of it to represent the Nazi.
Tsunku -
Sorry no shock value for this American. Most of us with any familiarity with Buddhism are well
aware that Hitler wasn't the first to use those symbols.
skylee -
Don't think the swastika was an original Chinese character. My English dictionary says the
swastika was "used as a sign for the sun in ancient times". But you can type 卍 using Cangji
input "NX".
關 於 卍 字
Quote:
卍字不入經傳，惟釋藏中有之。釋家謂佛再世生，胸前隱起卍字文，後人始
此字;宣城梅氏不入字彙，自錢塘吳任臣作《元音統韻》末卷始行補入。
即此可以證明卍字的確不是中土的古字。不過卍字雖不是中土的古字，但是
來習慣上可以當作「萬」字用，卻也是事實。
現在可以確知者：（一）「卍」的意義同「萬」，（二）「卍」字是外來文
。至於外來文字所以為一般人喜歡借用的理由，大概不外二種關係:（一）
取吉祥的意義，如上文所舉「自稱卍盧道人」之例就是。（二）兼取圖案
意義，如五代和凝詩「卍字闌干菊半開」等句便是。
Also 卍字是什麼意思？
Quote:
根據日本國士館大學光島督博士的研究，卍字本非文字，西元前八世紀時始
於婆羅門教的記載，乃是主神毗濕笯的胸毛，是稱為 vatsa
的記號而非文字，至西元前三世紀始被用於佛典。到了西元後一世紀時，又
名為 'svastiko
，本為牛犢頭部的毛髮螺旋相，演變成主神毗濕笯的胸毛相，後成為十六種
人相之一，又成為三十二種大人相之一。
總之，在佛教不論右旋、左旋，卍字均係用來表徵佛的智慧與慈悲無限。旋
表示佛力的無限運作，向西方無限地延伸、無盡地展現，無休無止地救濟
方無量的眾生。故亦無須執著、揣摩卍字形相的表現是右旋或左旋了。
Yang Guizi -
Yeh it's somewhat misused though--just type it into a search engine and see what misguided
japanese neo-nazi crap comes up
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