• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Edit: My bad, I didn’t notice the character correctly

    Chinese is full of beautiful compound words like this. “You’re welcome” for example (bukeqi, 不客气) is “not guest air”. Happy (gaoxing, 高兴) is “high mood”, or cheerful (kaixin, 开心) is “open heart”.

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      4 months ago

      No.

      Person is 人. This character is 入, it means “going inside”. The difference is which stroke is on the top, the left or the right.