Wordie: Trouble: Comments

Comment by VanishedOne, 5 months ago

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:47:53 +0000

I'm being told 'hemp, flax'. Aren't those tree radicals?

friesian.com/yinyang.htm (no idea how authoritative it is) says: 'It is sometimes said that the Chinese character for "trouble" shows two women under one roof. Such a character is possible, and would look like this {see link}, but there actually is no such Chinese character, though I understand that the myth lives on the internet.'

Comment by plethora, 5 months ago

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:13:35 +0000

Everything I know about Chinese symbols I learned from Japanese kanji, but looking at the symbol I can see how that would work. It looks like this if anyone's interested: 麻

Comment by frindley, 5 months ago

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:04:32 +0000

The Chinese ideogram for "trouble" shows two women living under one roof.
(Disclaimer: I don't know Chinese, can anyone verify this?)