First day in Hong Kong, and I was sitting in the bus reading the newspaper, and I found a section there called, some origin of words and learn chinese kind of thing,
So found the following entry which was talking about the origin of hte word good.
Good is written as,
好 and pronounced as (Hau)
and here is how it is formed,
The first character in the above word
女
means woman, girl etc. (Pronounced Nu).
And the second character
子
means a boy (zu)
And you combine this together to get
好
which means good (Hau)
So a girl and boy together means good.
Isn't this interesting.
2 comments:
dude, it can mean many things! but on second thoughts, lemme tell u where it is derived from...female and male means yin and yang and when these two are what together make what is called complete. and complete is good. like the hindu shiv and shakti. samjha???
Given the approximately 60000+ characters in Chinese, trust Goli to come up with the one most interesting to him ;-)
GOLI YOU FILTHY DAWG!!
:o)
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