Re: To---dajava

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Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:49:49 -0800

Roy Schmidt wrote:

The poster lin45879 is correct. Every Chinese character has some meaning associated with it (sometimes multiple meanings), and many

	What is the meaning of the single character only of

            3 point water (on the left) and ear (on the right)?

characters can be pronounced differently depending on context and intended meaning (let alone dialect). So Chinese characters do not comprise a system of phonetics. One character = one syllable is *always* true in Chinese; it is often not true when Chinese characters are used in Japanese (kanji), e.g. Chinese xiao lin = Japanese ko bayashi (and the second is pronounced hayashi when standing alone) = small forest.


	Yes, in Japanese most kanji have at least two sounds, and some
	with a lot more.

BTW, ming bai = "bright/light/clear" + "white" = "clearly understood," not knowledge.
Cheers, Roy

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