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230 sats \ 21 replies \ @south_korea_ln 17 Aug 2024 \ on: Parent’s Corner: 大人 vs 小人 mostly_harmless
Nice writeup. Seems like using 小 to describe people of low moral character is common: I remember learning the word for thief being 小偷 (xiao tou).
This post reminded me of your last one explaining the etymology of characters. I recently thought about another example of that (involving yet again 女).
The character 安 (an), which means "peace," is a combination of 宀 (a roof) and 女 (a woman), suggesting that peace comes when there is a woman in the house.
Thanks for such a lovely comment.
There’s also 小气鬼 - someone who is petty.
You made me wanna learn some Korean so that I can explore the similarities n differences between these two languages - and how Mandarin might have influenced the development of Korean!
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Fun fact: Korean's dictionary is twice the size of most dictionaries as both a native Korean and a Chinese version of words usually exist. The Chinese versions usually make one sound more erudite but are only used in certain formal contexts.
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Electronic dictionaries aren’t in vogue these days?
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Oh they are. Just referring to the number of entries here, regardless of the format. Electronic or paper.
To be fair, Korean in nr 2 (after Tamil) also comes from the inclusion of north Korean dialects.
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What's the story behind so many entries for Tamil?
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A very good question!
Seems like this is because Tamil is one of the oldest, in fact the second oldest after Sanskrit, has so many synonyms for every word.
I'm not from the place is where Tamil is spoken. I'm from North India and Tamil is very specific to South India only.
But, I know one or two things about Sanskrit. Let me tell you. Sanskrit is one of the richest languages in the world, it has more words than in any other language. At present, Sanskrit dictionary has “102.78 billion” 🤷words! This is possible only because there are innumerable synonyms in Sanskrit for every word. So, Sanskrit isn't spoken mother of all languages for nothing. I've studied Sanskrit in my school and I can confirm you this.
I'm surprised that Wikipedia hasn't included Sanskrit dictionary in the list.
You can confirm it here.
https://satyaagrah.com/sanatan/dharm-sanskriti/2315-sanskrit-dictionary
Link of online Sanskrit dictionary:
I love how you got other stackers to chime in. SN is truly a microcosm of the world!
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The character 安 (an), which means "peace," is a combination of 宀 (a roof) and 女 (a woman), suggesting that peace comes when there is a woman in the house.
A tear almost rolls out of my eye.. my eyes did watered... that's such a compelling image, it exposes so much about our most fundamentals... I love how every kanji is a poem in itself...
Thank you so much for bringing this to us @cryotosensei and @south_korea_ln
Edit: ok one did
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You are so dramatic 😂
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I know!!! But it did got me :')
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