Talk:Hanzi of Genesis

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Some content from http://evolutionwiki.org/wiki/Chinese_glyph_for_ark_is_literally_8_mouths The FCP Foundation (talk/stalk) 19:41, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

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https://www.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/5sfg3z/japanese_katakana_and_hiragana_are_derived_from/ddg4xtr/ Fuzzy. Cat. Potato! (talk/stalk) 14:25, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Japanese

As this is about hanzi, why do we mention kanji so much? I understand that they're the same character set but we're discussing Chinese.

On a side note, 奴 and 女 are homophones and means slave and woman, respectively.. Fareeha A (talk) 14:24, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Some more examples

Taking 共 and breaking it down into 廾 （gong） which they take to mean 'united' (it means nothing on its own), 一 （yi）which they claim means earth (it means one, but they'll say 'one earth'), and 八 （ba）which means eight. From 'united' + 'earth' + 'eight' they get 共，which means 'altogether' and is used in words like common and consensus. They'll then take 'altogether' and because it's in the word flood, it must refer to the global flood, right?

Another one is 塔 (ta - tower), which supposedly comes from 土 (earth); 艹 which means nothing on its own, but they somehow take to mean grass; 人 which means person, but they distort into 'mankind'; 一 (one); and 口 (mouth). They'll say that mankind had one mouth and was building bricks — obviously this refers to the tower of Babel. KoiDevelopment™ (thanks, Love!) 17:04, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Character

Should we clarify in the opening paragraph that we're discussing alphabet characters and not literary characters? The introduction gives the impression that there are ancient Chinese literary characters similar to the characters from Genesis. The former only becomes clear upon reading further down into the article, which not everyone is going to do. --Vital Forces (talk) 21:18, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

We should probably also clarify the exact nature of what these characters are. Chinese writing is a logographic system, meaning characters represent entire words. The Hebrew script is an abjad, which is basically an alphabet without vowels. (I tried, before reading the article, like an FNG. I'm an idiot lol.) Vee (talk) 21:23, 10 October 2022 (UTC)