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<WL>女 [nǚ] 女子 woman/female; 女儿 daughter/girl; (radical 38 女部)@@ [nǜ] 以女嫁人; 出仕, 做官 [rǔ] (代詞) 汝; (姓) | <WL>女 [nǚ] 女子 woman/female; 女儿 daughter/girl; (radical 38 女部)@@; (HDZ:) … [nǜ] 以女嫁人; 出仕, 做官 [rǔ] (代詞) 汝; (姓) | ||
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The Shuōwén Seal form of 女(𠨰) nǚ ‘girl/woman’ derives from old pictographs sketching a woman; in much older (OBI) graphs the woman seems to be kneeling/sitting; a central loop represents the folded arms (as cradling a child), or breasts; the first stroke (㇛) of the modern form corresponds to the central curved stroke of the Seal form (the top of which marks the head, and the bottom the foot, in old graphs); the other two strokes (㇒, ㇐) of the modern form correspond to the other two Seal strokes (which draw the central ‘arms/breasts’ loop of the old graph). | The Shuōwén Seal form of 女(𠨰) nǚ ‘girl/woman’ derives from old pictographs sketching a woman; in much older (OBI) graphs the woman seems to be kneeling/sitting; a central loop represents the folded arms (as cradling a child), or breasts; the first stroke (㇛) of the modern form corresponds to the central curved stroke of the Seal form (the top of which marks the head, and the bottom the foot, in old graphs); the other two strokes (㇒, ㇐) of the modern form correspond to the other two Seal strokes (which draw the central ‘arms/breasts’ loop of the old graph). | ||
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