Friday, November 18, 2005

"Sisters"


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The top character is a Japanese specific character for "elder sister". Its equivalent in Chinese are and .

The bottom character means "younger sister". If the order of two horizontal stokes in partical are reversed and changed the character to , it would mean "wife of the last ruler of the Xia dynasty".

Both characters are somewhat recognizable, but I am astonished by the mangled left partial .


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