My 心 is on fire. Interpret as you wish

you should DEFINITELY cover 骨 (skull) ancient chinese people literally been postin' their W's in their oracle bones

@equilibrum999

20 күн бұрын

yeah, they did invent W before W was a thing, althrough 山 kinda looks like W

@Long-Ya

17 күн бұрын

I only study Japanese, I still intend to study Chinese though! Personally, it is so weird that 骨 is "skull", because this just means "bone" in Japanese. "Skull" would be 頭骨 (literally head + bone). Pretty cool seeing these differences and knowing the etymology, haha.

@garfieldh.8820

16 күн бұрын

@@Long-Ya 骨 does indeed mean "bone" in Chinese, not "skull"

YES! I'm so happy to see my request come full circle! I had suspected that it was originally more pictographic to a heart and had gotten more abstract over time, but I had no idea there was such a range of different ways people wrote it. Thank you so much for humoring me in my request! Fantastic final product as always!

@SwedishSinologyNerd

20 күн бұрын

I'm glad you liked it! I was a bit surprised myself at how much material I could squeeze from a simple pictogram lol. I even had to reign myself in when it came to the cursive forms (various types of squiggly lines) and sino-xenic descendants (like the Chu Nom/Sawndip character 𦙦).... xD

@xXMACEMANXx

20 күн бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd I would love to see some Chu Nom content also!

@Lazy_Fish_Keeper

Күн бұрын

​@@SwedishSinologyNerd you and my high school Taiwanese Mandarin instructor would have made a great team! Her deep dives into character development made learning Chinese very ....memorable.

This was very educational video. I will never see 心 the same...

@SwedishSinologyNerd

20 күн бұрын

That's what I'm all about, changing people's lives, one lame-ass meme at a time! xD

Wow! Who knew? I loved this presentation. So out-of-the-usual and FUN! Thank you SSNerd. I'll keep watching.

@SwedishSinologyNerd

20 күн бұрын

I'm absolutely chuffed you liked it! I was afraid I went overboard with the memes lol

@omarose7504

20 күн бұрын

Not overboard at all. Amusing and light. As an American, I want to see and read from a different perspective around the world. Great job!@@SwedishSinologyNerd

Oh i did not know this. This is my favourite esoteric fact after the symbol for "heaven" in Miqmaw being the inverted pentagram.

we've been drawing (Noodle So Fucking Wow) since the ancient time

The logo of Xiaomi: "mi" resembles the character for "心" turned upside down.

@SwedishSinologyNerd

10 күн бұрын

Oh hey, it does! Do you know if that's intentional or not?

I'm too scared to ask how the egg plant character looks like...

@AlejanderLong

11 күн бұрын

具or 祖 or且

@Frahamen

10 күн бұрын

@@AlejanderLong 目but the lowest stroke longer. Got it.

Now THIS is the kind of content I subscribed for. 非常感謝 😁🙏🏻

Yeah… Those cannot all be a coincidence… No way generations and generations of men never noticed anything funny about that character 😅

First time watching, and you've gotten yourself a new subscriber! The level of detail the Shang have of the internal structure of the heart is probably because they're big on human sacrifices (人牲), which is something that isn't really known by many people! Although, I'd kvetch about how this isn't etymology but paleography, since it's not the word that's being discussed but how the word is written down. The etymology of 心, for the record, ultimately comes from some Trans-Himalayan word (I call it Trans-Himalayan because it's straight-up just a better name than Sino-Tibetan), with cognates in other languages like Written Burmese sam /θàɴ/ and Written Tibetan bsams. In Old Chinese, it was \*/səm/, probably passing through a Tang Dynasty form \*/sim³³/ before ending up as Beijing Mandarin xīn /ɕin⁵⁵/, Urban Cantonese /sɐm⁵⁵/, Huiyang Hakka /sim²³/, Shanghainese /ɕiŋ⁵³/, and others.

@SwedishSinologyNerd

19 күн бұрын

Welcome aboard! I'm glad you like the content despite the less than professional presentation ^^ While the Shang did practice human sacrifices (and I was about to make an Apocalypto/Temple of Doom cutaway joke but decided against it.... I'll use it in the Shang history vid instead =P) I'm not sure if it was of the very graphic kind that would give them a good idea of what human innards look like, some oracle bone characters hint at various forms of executions but I haven't found any source talking about the sacrifices in any detail.... As for the etymology, I agree but I thinkpeople are more interested in the visual aspect of Chinese characters rather than the sound changes (tho I will be adding more sound changes in videos where it seems relevant, like the upcoming video on 打). The biggest problem I have is I can't find a good source for reconstructed Old Chinese (I like the Zhengzhang system because it's at least pronouncable, but Baxter-Sagart seem to be more accurate, though their reconstructions approach the Lovecraftean at times with regards to pronuncability. For this vid in particular, I saw a hint on wiktionary that it might have been cognate with 念 which would be interesting as a possible noun-verb split in an original word... but because wiktionary doesn't cite their damn sources I couldn't follow it up and decided to cut it out for brevity. Believe me, I'd love to spend another 10 minutes each video tracing a words sound change from PST to OC to MC to modern Chinese languages as well as how the words appear as loans in other languages (Vietnamese would feature heavily lol) but because I'm not fluent in all of those languages and have little confidence in doing the pronunciations justice (caught some flack for my attempt in the video on 茶), I have to pick my battles so to speak. I'll try to add more actual etymology in my vids but probably nothing super elaborate, since I also wanna try keeping to a video every 14 days schedule. Sorry about the text wall, and thanks again for the comment and for being a subscriber! ^^

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If your other videos are this much fun, I might subscribe 😁😁😁

@SwedishSinologyNerd

16 күн бұрын

Unfortunately I can't make any promises, but I do my best to try and make my hyperfixation engaging to my viewers! xD

Really gives meaning to the saying "I love you with all my heart"

1:04 The original heart is more similar to the actual. Why t fdid they changed to that 1:18 kind of p-like symbol? Thank goodness 5:31 they finally changed back to heart-like heart 心. I'm already interested in 漢字, I've subscribed you and want to learn more!

@SwedishSinologyNerd

15 күн бұрын

As for the why, I'm lik 89% sure it was due to esthetics (or "vibes" in zoomer speak xD), most of our examples from this period are from bronze ware, which were pretty expensive to make. So whoever comissioned the pieces were probably like "I want it to say THIS on my awesome expensive tripod and make it look swanky AF" and the rest is history. The end result of this trend was the "worms and birds" style where either the lines were all drawn very squiggly (like worms or tadpoles) or had random bird-features added to them. These eements had zero value in conveying the meaning of the text and were really just there to make the text look more awesome, like using a nifty font on your PPT presentation ^^

I started thinking about 小 and how it means small, and I noticed the central line between the 2 diagonal almost looks like it's breaking something in two? So from the breaking we get 2 smaller lines and we can reach the meaning of "small"... unless it has another explanation

@SwedishSinologyNerd

16 күн бұрын

Well, they’re prolly upcoming videos but 小 and 少 are related characters that seem to depict small grains of…. Something. Could be sand (origin of 沙？) but might just as well be grains, it’s a bit of a mystery :)

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Idk if you wanna take more requets but you should look into the origins of 且, I already know that it depicts some type of sacrificial altar and was the original form of 俎 but I think some scholars mayyyyy have interpreted **very** differently in the past (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)

I don't even study Chinese, and still it was a pretty interesting video!

Hey, Emperor music! Haha

From a simple to a mans um "sack" is kind of funny‽

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Hmm my name has some interesting characters being 陸天篤 陸 and 篤 may have some interesting etymologies

@SwedishSinologyNerd

20 күн бұрын

Oh hey, that's a good name! Earth-Heaven-Earth, very stable and dependable but with enough Yang to not be sluggish! And I can for sure cover both those characters eventually ^^

Wow it's always really amazing the story of the Chinese characters and their evolution. But i'd like to know the story of the colors and their evolution for representing something so abstract as "oh hell yeah that says red" --> 赤

@SwedishSinologyNerd

7 күн бұрын

There is a video on the five Chinese prime colors (青、赤、黃、白（素）、玄（黑）) in the works! Because it deals with several words and characters, as well as Chinese color theory, it's gonna be a long one so it might still be a while...

Amaxing... o_O

Noice

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would the name of your character be in chinese as '虫木'?

@SwedishSinologyNerd

20 күн бұрын

Haha, it’s actually 艾 or the Artimisia plant, aka mugwort aka wormwood, it’s a common herb used in TCM esp. for moxibustion

@equilibrum999

20 күн бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd aha, 谢谢 for explaining.

Same logic applies to Japanese with this stuff right?

@SwedishSinologyNerd

11 күн бұрын

Largely yes but with some exceptions/glitches caused by applying a monosyllabic script to a polysyllabic, completely unrelated language, as well as some localizations/adaptions made by the Japanese themselves. One day I'll have do a dedicated video on Japanese Kokuji...

@steve5123456789

11 күн бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd But the Etymology stuff is mostly the same just with some tact on meanings sometimes?

@SwedishSinologyNerd

11 күн бұрын

@@steve5123456789 Yup

🫀->❤->💔->❤️‍🩹

Bruh 心 just got so much more loaded with meaning, but now 忄makes much more sense. Thanks so much for the vid~

@SwedishSinologyNerd

20 күн бұрын

Thank YOU for watching! ^^ I was afraid I went overboard with the dank memes and d*ck jokes lol