What does the hieroglyph "love" look like? Are Chinese and Japanese characters "love" similar?

Everyone knows the expression "Chinese literacy". It means something complex, incomprehensible to those who lack knowledge in a certain field. And indeed, in the grammar of many Eastern peoples a hieroglyphic letter is accepted, and the symbols themselves are simply an infinite number.

Chinese literacy in practice

Each hieroglyphic sign consists of so-called radicals, which have an independent meaning. Do those who study Chinese or Japanese learn them all? Their number is calculated in a five-digit number, but only a few thousand are used in everyday life. For reading periodicals and popular literature, enough knowledge and two thousand. But the main thing is that it is not cramming, but an understanding of the system by which the sense of the word (and sometimes the whole sentence) can be guessed. For example, the hieroglyph "love", meaning the most important concept in the life of every person, regardless of language, race and nationality. How do they write (or rather draw) the Japanese and the Chinese?

What do you have claws and claws?

The Chinese letter does not seem simple, and in order to understand it, it is necessary to plunge into the world of complex associative rules. To learn how to calligraphically correctly reproduce the characters will be able only to those who will comprehend to some extent the way of thinking of the great and ancient people.

The hieroglyph "love" consists of four parts-radicals, located from the top down. The upper figure, resembling an inverted Russian letter "Sh", written in bold strokes, with a wide base and an inclined last stick symbolizes a claw or paw. Apparently, so ancient Chinese understood the ruthlessness of the feeling and its tenacity. At us after all too speak, that the love for a potato does not look like, and if it to throw out in a window it will enter a door. And the Cupid's arrow is a sharp enough object. In general, it's easy to hurt the heart, and it's good if the feeling is mutual, and it will hurt.

Roof

Then comes the roof. What it has to do with a love affair, a European can be incomprehensible. But the housing issue, badly spoiled, in the words of one of Bulgakov's characters, Muscovites, apparently caused damage to the Chinese people back in those ancient times when his writing was being formed. Of course, one can understand this radical not so literally, but in a figurative sense. The second in order, and perhaps, in value, the line that makes up the Chinese character "love", most likely, refers to the connection with the place where the feeling settled. Namely in the heart.

A heart

This body in all nations - the house and the container of tender and, on the contrary, cruel emotions. Both love and hate live in it, grow and die. Why do people in the whole world think so? Probably, because the rapid heart rate is the most clearly felt sign of excitement. And the symbol of this blood pump is indicated by two lines intersecting at an angle.

One more same inclined cross, but with a short stick added to the top of the stick, going from right to left and upwards, also means something incomprehensible to a person who thinks in a European way. This radical symbolizes a kind of slowly moving creature with many legs. But you can find logic in this figure, it is enough to recall the love of languor, depriving forces. My head is spinning, my legs are spinning ...

In general, if you combine all four components, it turns out that the hieroglyph "love" contains the following information: "under the roof of the heart, a feeling that pierced the claws settled, disturbed the rest so that you want to go somewhere, but there is no strength."

And how about the Japanese?

Signs of Japanese writing are borrowed in China. This happened in the fifth century of our era, and this explains the common ideographic features of the two neighboring peoples. If you carefully consider the Japanese character "love", then in its radicals you can distinguish all the elements of its Chinese prototype: the roof, and claws, and the heart, and even a slow gait, though not immediately. Writing calligraphers from the Land of the Rising Sun is characterized by greater softness and smooth lines. Speech, too, sounds different. If the Chinese language completely lacks the letter "P", then in Japanese, the same applies to the sound of "L". The interpretation of radicals differs in the same way as phonetics.

In the national character of the Japanese, an important place is occupied by the voluntary imposition of obligations and their careful observance. They will never say, like us: "I do not owe anything to anyone." If the motherland, family, parents or enterprise consider that a person needs to do so, and not otherwise, he will give up his emotions or desires and fulfill their will. And if a Japanese loves, then this is eternal love. The hieroglyph consists of many dashes and lines, deciphered by a whole set of feelings. Here and energy, and spiritual intimacy, and pacification, and union. In general, the almost ideal ties of Hymen with some national specifics. The hieroglyph writing can differ depending on what value it is given (koi or kanji).

Hieroglyphic tattoos

Once upon a time, sailors decorated their bodies with many blue images reminiscent of distant lands, storms and storms. In the places of imprisonment, there was also a tradition of doing "tattoos", and not just for that, but with a certain meaning, understandable to "the sittlers" (well, law enforcement officials - even the directories with the stamp "for official use" were printed). Ordinary men, not burdened by prison experience and not furrowing the seas, also sometimes had inscriptions, but more simply ("Sonia", "Masha", "I will not forget my mother's mother", etc.).

In our time, which is characterized by enthusiasm for Eastern philosophical concepts, everything has become much more sophisticated. Not at once and not everyone will be able to understand what this or that tattoo is, a hieroglyph. "Love" is now punctured in Japanese or Chinese, on different parts of the body and not always, unfortunately, in the correct spelling. But it should be remembered that Eastern calligraphy is an art to which masters learn for years, and any inaccuracy can lead to the fact that the sign either acquires a completely opposite meaning, or becomes a meaningless set of zakoryuk. In addition, the adherents of Buddhism, Shintoism and other overseas religious and philosophical teachings believe that the image can influence fate. So caution never hurts.

Is it possible without hieroglyphs?

With the help of the Russian language it is very difficult to convey the phonetics of Japanese, Chinese or, for example, Vietnamese words. From the way the speaker "pierces" a set of sounds, the meaning of the expression, from direct to opposite, depends. In the time of great friendship between the USSR and the PRC, the idea arose to translate the writing of words in the Middle Kingdom into Cyrillic, abolishing a huge number of characters, just as the Russian grammar was earlier simplified by removing Yati, Yer, and other allegedly unnecessary letters from it. But this project, despite the obvious logic, did not take place. This explains the fact that the hieroglyph "love" adorns the photo of the elected Chinese and Japanese young people to this day.

About names

It seems that writing a Chinese or Japanese word in Russian is very simple. All those who serve or sell radio equipment, cars or other equipment from the Land of the Rising Sun or the Celestial Empire are engaged in this. There are a lot of brands: Mitsubishi (or Mitsubishi), Subaru, Matsushita (again, maybe Matsushita?). And there are names (for example, Emperor Hirohito).

About how much our reprimand corresponds to the original, we can judge by the inimitable Japanese accent. If the girl's name is Any, the Japanese, addressing her, will say "Ryuba". And if he is afraid to forget, and he needs to write down a name? Is there a suitable hieroglyph? Lubov Petrovna, for example, may not understand that this is being addressed to her. However, resourceful inhabitants of the Japanese islands find the right radicals, trying to convey to them all the wealth of the Russian language. It turns out, however, with difficulty.