At approximately 6:30 am, Dragon Standard Time, a sudden scream tore apart the silent evening air of the Xuan district in the Eastern part of the World. A few hours later, fresh traces of ink were discovered in the hallway of a condominium by one of the neighbor occupants. Upon investigation, the local police followed those traces straight to the secluded studio of a ferocious Dragon. Once the heavily barricaded door was breached, the view that greeted the first policeman who entered the … [Read more...]
Kanji: 子
1. Meaning: child; first sign of Chinese zodiac; sign of the rat. 2. Readings: Kunyomi (訓読み): こ, -こ, ね Onyomi (音読み):シ, ス, ツ Japanese names: い, き, ぎ, く, け, ねっ Chinese reading: zǐ, zi 3. Etymology 子 belongs to the 象形文字 (しょうけいもじ, shōkeimoji, i.e. set of characters of pictographic origin). It is a pictograph of an infant. In “Explaining Simple (Characters) and Analyzing Compound Characters” (說文解字, pinyin: Shūowén Jiězì) from the 2nd century C.E., compiled by Xu … [Read more...]
Kanji: 山
1. Meaning: mountain; also: climax, critical point, speculation, guess, criminal case. 2. Readings: Kunyomi (訓読み): やま Onyomi (音読み):サン, セン Japanese names: さ, やの, やん Chinese reading: shān 3. Etymology 山 belongs to the 象形文字 (しょうけいもじ, shōkeimoji, i.e. set of characters of pictographic origin). It is a pictograph of a mountain rising up from the surface of the ground. The sound and secondary meanings of the character 山 are strongly related to ancient Chinese … [Read more...]
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