my 3rd grader came home with this today from school, excited to show me how he’d written his name in Chinese. I had to gently explain to him that this is, uh… extremely Not Correct

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  • Society_Liver [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I remember feeling so proud when I realized that 吗 and 妈 both had a 马 in them and I finally figured something out about the language that wasn't just rote memorization.

    • foxodroid [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Same feeling when I realized the symbol 女 exists in several "feminine" words like "she" or "mother"

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I felt the same when I realized a lot of the words for women have 女 in them, like 妈妈 and 姐姐

      Which now that I looked, 女人 is woman, so that definitely makes sense and I don’t know why it wasn’t explicitly stated when they started trying to teach me those characters

    • Ursus_Hexagonus [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      True leftists study radicals!

      spoiler

      (do they call them radicals in chinese or is that just for japanese?)