New Members Rallen12 Posted February 26, 2013 at 02:34 AM New Members Report Posted February 26, 2013 at 02:34 AM So i just got these keychains from my sister and i just would like to know what each mean Quote
li3wei1 Posted February 26, 2013 at 12:30 PM Report Posted February 26, 2013 at 12:30 PM looks like 吉祥 see http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%90%89%E7%A5%A5 The second character's left side looks a bit wrong, though. Quote
New Members Rallen12 Posted February 26, 2013 at 04:33 PM Author New Members Report Posted February 26, 2013 at 04:33 PM sorry but what does it mean? auspicious? Quote
ABCsOfChinese Posted February 28, 2013 at 08:09 AM Report Posted February 28, 2013 at 08:09 AM The character on the left is "吉", pronounced "ji2". By itself it means "lucky". (The etymology of this character is depicting 士 scholar + 口 mouth/words = lucky) The character on the right is "祥", pronounced "xiang2". By itself it means "auspicious". (The etymology of this character is depicting a variation of 示 on the left which means sign/omen, and 羊 on the right which gives that character its pronunciation and also has the connotation "good". Anyway, those two components combine to make the character 祥 ) In the link that user li3wei1 gave you in his earlier response you can see that when you put the 2 characters together it forms the phrase 吉祥 "lucky/auspicious" Quote
Hofmann Posted March 2, 2013 at 06:57 AM Report Posted March 2, 2013 at 06:57 AM It's a pretty popular way to write 示 on the left in 行書. Quote
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