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Kanji Fun Talk: Disease (458)

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Kanji Fun Talk: Disease (458)
Kanji Fun Talk: Disease (458)

Kanji Fun Talk: Disease

"Disease" (ji2), which is a synaesthetic word. The first of oracle bones is like a person's armpit hit by an arrow, and the second is like a person lying on the bed after being hit by an arrow.

In ancient times, the bow and arrow is the most commonly used tool for the ancestors to hunt wild animals, but also one of the most used weapons in the fight between the Fang kingdoms and the tribes, the bow and arrow originally used, due to technical reasons, rarely a single arrow makes people fatal, more is to make the arrow person injured, creating pain, pain, and loss of combat effectiveness.

In the early Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the "disease" character of the Jin script continued the second glyph of the oracle bone, with slight differences in configuration, and the "disease" character of the late Zhou Dynasty continued the first glyph of the oracle bone.

The word "disease" in the small seal is "bed" on the left, and on the right is "a ya character under a horizontal line" (meaning arrow in the arrow), which becomes the shape of the sound word "from the sound of the arrow".

The character is written as "疒" under the addition of a "ya" to become a word next to the "疒", and the script is written as "disease".

The original meaning of "disease" is to be injured by an arrow. The latter refers to all diseases. In fact, "disease" and "disease" are not the same, "disease" refers to trauma, and "disease" refers to tissue or organ dysfunction or structural changes caused by one or more factors in the body. The mixing of post-archaic texts no longer makes strict distinctions.

"Disease" extends to refer to disgust, hatred. The Analects. Tabor: "Man is not kind, the disease is very bad, and the chaos is also chaotic." (Excessive hatred of those who have no virtue will lead to trouble.) )

"Disease" is composed of "疒" and "arrow", and the flight speed of the arrow is very fast, so "disease" can mean fast, rapid. Mengjiao's "After Dengke" poem: Spring breeze triumphant horseshoe disease. Wang Wei's poem "Watching the Hunt": "Grass withered eagle eye disease." "

If "disease" is a cause for sorrow, there is an imperfect righteousness. Extension refers to shortcomings, faults. "Xunzi. Self-cultivation: "If you don't help etiquette, you will be trapped in a disease." "

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