By Richard Sears
Many people who study Chinese characters become obsessed with sexual anatomy. They imagine all kinds of things related to sexual anatomy. There are hundreds of characters that have components related to women, but it is because there is a relation either to the meaning or to the pronunciation. I only find 14 characters whose primitive pictographs have any direct connection with the female anatomy or attributes of women.
母 meaning mother
Pictograph of a woman with breasts and nipples showing
毋 meaning forbidden
Pictograph of woman with breasts covered, meaning forbidden
女 meaning a woman
Pictograph of a woman with breasts with no nipples
每 meaning beautiful
Pictograph of a woman with beautiful hair
乳 meaning milk
Pictograph of a woman holding a baby breast feeding
孔 meaning hole
Pictograph of a woman breast feeding through a hole in the cloths meaning nourishment
Pictograph of breasts see
頤 to nourish a pictograph of sucking the breasts
姬 Pictograph of a woman holding an infant 巳 is always a baby as long as it is not confused with 已
孕meaning pregnant
Pictograph of a pregnant woman 乃 sometimes refer to breasts
妻 meaning wife
Pictograph of a woman and hand messing with her hair
身 meaning body
Pictograph of a pregnant woman who has body 有身 is pregnant. Not a fat man.
㐆 meaning to be careful
Pictograph of a pregnant woman, who must be careful
若 meaning if
Pictograph of a woman messing with her hair
妾 meaning concubine
Pictograph of a woman and an upside down 立 indicating she is laying sown ready for sex
居 meaning to live at
Pictograph of a woman 尸 having a baby 古. That is your place of birth.
Uncle Hanzi in Beijing 2017
My web site is: http://chineseetymology.org
I grew up in Medford Oregon, a small town of all white all English speakers. I found it boring, so I ran away from home to see he world.
I have been involved with China for 45 years, Spent 25 years building a web site with 96000 ancient character forms, the largest of its kind in the world. I have been living in China for the past few years. Taught physics at Beijing Normal University and give lectures on Chinese etymology to students around China. I speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Russian and have written more than a thousand stories about China and other travels. I have made a few dozen videos about Chinese characters too.
I am known as Uncle Hanzi 漢字叔叔 in China
Watch this You Tube of Richard Sears discussing this work.
Ian, if you don’t understand the #23, google robert anton wilson, who kept a running list of his experiences with 23.
Thank Trish for helping this guy.
Maybe Adele
I am still trying to understand 23 .
Is this the age we become when we live by the Yi ?
Like the Yogic age of 16 , we become , mastering Yoga ?
That I have read somewhere . And is there a connection between 23
and the movie Taxi Driver ? , these are my present concerns .
But I don’t understand Mr. Sears’s website.
You might write to him. I think he would enjoy hearing from you.
Fascinating. Never thought of the hexagrams in this way.
I posted this article because I found it interesting in terms of the Chinese language that is made with images. I.e., it is not a linear language like Western languages. It isn’t about the hexagrams in particular. Since my visual interpretation of the I Ching is from a woman’s perspective, I enjoyed seeing all those various descriptions of women and how they were “written.”
Hey !
Whats the Chinese for Geek ?
This guy should know !
Ian
Ask him. He will tell you.
Thank you Adele
I have had a look at his website , and his photo , and have my answer .
A picture is worth a thousand words
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