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Kanji Fun Talk: Hu
"Hu4", which is a hieroglyph. The glyph of the oracle bone "household" resembles the white depiction of a door.
When the ancient ancestors created the word, they divided what we call "door" today into two types, the single one is called "household", and the double one is called the door. The houses where ordinary people live have only one "household" (half door), that is, a simple dwelling where "the soil is a room and the tent is a household". People with a certain social status and more wealth live in houses with two "households" (doors).
In larger buildings, "households" are mainly used indoors, and "doors" are mainly used in courtyards or entrance doors. A large building, there are many "households" inside, and there are very few "doors" that communicate with the outside world.
The text is explained: "Household, protection, half door household." This means that the "household" is a single door leaf, and its role is to protect.
The word "household" in the golden script adds a long horizontal to the upper part of the oracle glyph, meaning "lintel", and the right side is "wood", indicating that "household" is made of wood. The pictographic meaning of the small seal "household" character has been obviously insufficient. The Lishu is obviously a symbolic text, and the script is thus written as "household".
The original meaning of "household" is a single door. Later, it refers to the door in general. "Lü Shi Chunqiu. Exhaustion:" "Flowing water does not rot, the household hub does not move, and it moves." "
"Household" extends to the household. In the household registration, one household is one household. Historia. Qin Shi Huang Benji: "Migration (xi3) the world's richest people in Xianyang 120,000 households. "
"Household" also extends to refer to caves. Huainanzi. Astronomy: "Hundreds of insects dormant, quietly closed." The "household" here refers to the cave where the "hundred worms" hibernate.
"Household", "Guardian also". Extension refers to blocking. "The Left Handbook. The Twelfth Year of Xuan Gong": "Zhao Xu (zhan1) abandoned the car and walked to the forest, bent the household, and got his armor." Meaning: Zhao Xu was so frightened that he lost his car, fled into the woods himself, fought with him (King Zhuang of Chu) resolutely, and captured his armor and underwear.