Symbolic aspects of Chinese language - spacetime
I am learning Chinese language because it is beautiful to me.
I've heard that pinyin mean space on vertical axis and time on horizontal. So for example, rén (人) would be rising from the ground, through middle level of life, into the sky (man becomes mature and wise) and then goes back to the ground when dies.
I am also interested, for example, why heart has that particular character - 心 , why three strokes?
I've asked a couple of teachers about the symbolic meanings, but they were not responding to this. The one teacher who told me about this is now away somewhere and not responding. Know anyone who is interested in this and can teach me about these aspects? ;) Thanks!
Best regards,
Ignas iV
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I think the closest you can get is by studying where characters originate from - Chinese characters were originally symbolic representations of real things, like the character for people looks like a person standing, the word for river is like two streams of water flowing between river beds, etc.
However, Chinese people don't study these things in school. You would be hard pressed to find someone who's aware of these stories. But a general Google search should come up with good resources if you'd like to know more about the topic. The keyword here being 象形文字 (symbolic characters)、甲骨文 (one of the earliest forms of the Chinese script).
Good luck.
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you are trying to find the depth in the spoonful... спрашивать почему в сердца четыре кляксы это всё равно что спрашивать почему в слове рука именно четыре буквы... а вот в слове тело тоже четыре буквы и в слове нога тоже... совпадение? не думаю!... наверное это какое-то выражение божественной сути небо-земля-человек-бог
короче не майтесь дурью и учите слова по спискам HSK
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Following two links are the transform flash films of two characters '人' and '心'. You can see how the character changing from image. Hope it is helpful for you.
http://www.dragonwise.hku.hk/dragon2/schools/archives/morph/A448.html
http://www.dragonwise.hku.hk/dragon2/schools/archives/morph/A4DF.html
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音调和词义之间是有关系的，但并不是你讲的“人”那样的关系。那只是一种附会。比如许多人解释：人是一撇一捺构成，表示人要相互帮助、相互支撑，其实，“人”最初表示的是一个人两手下垂低头屈身的侧面形象，解释成“谦恭、知礼”恐怕还更好一些。“人”和“仁”同音，就是因为“人”是有“仁心”的生命，与动物、禽兽有着本质的区别。现代的人认为自己是动物进化来的，就是自贱，自己贬低自己罢了。
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