Re^2: Croaking and Carping

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Re^3: Croaking and Carping by halley (Prior) on Oct 08, 2005 at 01:24 UTC
Hm, not that I see. Japanese characters are the same as Chinese characters in most cases, but maybe there's a difference. The Japanese kanji for marriage (tie, conclude) is a combination of a thread-spool, a soldier, and a mouth. Kind of like "tie the knot." The mouth component is a box, but it's not surrounding the soldier. No woman component is explicitly included. Though if you take the soldier out and put in a roof, you get the symbol for "pay." Maybe there's something to be said for that. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]
Re^4: Croaking and Carping by Duco (Sexton) on Oct 14, 2005 at 23:32 UTC
OK, I did a little more research on this, using babelfish. I believe this is the symbol in question: 姻 And this is woman, which certainly appears to the left side of the marriage symbol, squooshed up: 女 I can only assume that the stick figure in the box is the man.	[reply]
Re^3: Croaking and Carping by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 20, 2006 at 03:11 UTC
>> No idea if it's apocryphal. Assuming you have this in your font: 姻	[reply]