(1) Yu and sister
妺, mò, pronounced as "ink", uses a personal name, and now mostly refers to 妺喜, the legendary favorite concubine of King Xia.
See "Chinese": XiXia had a shi, there was a shiren who was a good girl, and there was a favor, so Hu and Yi Yinbi died in Xia.
Sister, mèi, explains in the Sayings: "Sister, female brother also." "Now there are usually three meanings:
1. Sister, a woman whose parents are younger than her own
2. Call a woman of the same generation who is younger than yourself.
3. Young woman;
(2) City, city, coin, market
巿, fú, ancient with "韍". Refers to a garment that was draped in front of clothing during the ancient hajj or sacrifice. It's also interesting: the lush look of the grass. The "JiYun And Final Rhyme" explains: "巿, 艸木盛皃". The meaning of the character is refined and written "芾", which is very familiar to everyone, such as the famous calligrapher mi fu in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is named after it.
The word shì, which is more common, refers to the trading place, which can be extended to the town of trade. If used as a verb, it can also be said as a business.
Coin, bì, just talked about doing business, just this word is the medium of doing business - money. However, the original meaning of the word is the silk fabric used as a gift by the ancients, because the chema jade is also a gift for the enjoyment, so it refers to the chema jade and so on, and finally extended from the silk fabric to currency. In addition, the word also has the meaning of giving.
帀, now has two pronunciations, shī (pronounced "poem") and zā (pronounced 匝).
When reading shī is often used as "division" in ancient Chinese, referring to the army; when reading zā, it is the same as the turn, circumnavigating also. Phrases such as: 一匝
(3) Mussels and
Speaking of mussels, everyone may first think of a very difficult place name related to it - Bengbu, which is a city in Anhui, so what is its pronunciation? [bèng bù] (pronounced "burst") The mussel is a mollusk. Breathing with the gills, there are two hard calcareous shells. Living in fresh water. The shell can be used as an ornament or for medicinal purposes. Some mussels can produce pearls in their shells. Most mussels are widely eaten as a seafood.
, pronounced bàng, pronounced the same as mussels, if you look up on the Internet, you can find that this word can not be found in the current dictionary. In order to explore its original meaning, I specially moved the sixth edition of "Ci Hai" to check it, and surprisingly there was no such result. So I consulted one of my more proficient teachers, and it turned out that the original meaning of the word referred to the wooden stick, and now the stick of the wooden stick is actually a word.
So from this, how different are they? One is an animal, the other is wood, and the source can be regarded as a plant. There is only one head left, but the difference is very different.
(4) Hub and bow
毂, pronounced gū/gǔ (pronounced "gu" |" Gu"), originally meant the log in the center of the wheel, borrowed to refer to the wheel or car. The common group word is hub 辘, the same as "轱辘", see the following figure:
G (gòu) is pronounced "enough", which refers to the force of the bow. "The heroes of the world are all in my midst", this is a sentence that we are very familiar with, and the background of this sentence is that after Tang Taizong Li Shimin implemented a method of passing the examination for scholars, it means to recruit outstanding talents in the world.
In fact, a closer look reveals that these two words are more graphic. One is a car, the other is a bow, and their differences are the differences in their corresponding meanings, one refers to the wheel, and the other refers to pulling a bow and shooting arrows. Although it looks very similar, the meaning is obviously different.
Please look forward to the next issue of decryption! Do you know of words that look like meanings but have very different meanings?