View Full Version : Are these the right Chinese characteres for Love and Hate ?
Artemis
07-06-2003, 06:07 PM
Hi, I'm designing a piece of jewelry, and I want to make sure I have found the correct Chinese symbols for Love and Hate.
Is this love?
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/p1dff3da1f4102419068aeff7bc759283/fbbee508.jpg
and hate: http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid68/pd9f7f3b1a7a5742f68971bd9b86440b3/fbbee502.jpg
Thanks for any help!
passing_through
07-07-2003, 02:22 PM
Generally speaking, Chinese ain't so simple. There's lots of meaning to a character. I don't have my dictionary with me here at work but I'll check and have something tomorrow.
In the meantime, to see what I mean about not simple, go here (http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/query.php?dbase=ccdict&mode=english&first=0&pagesize=20&sound=0&lang=en&beijing=pinyin&canton=yale&meixian=default&fields=pinyin,english&show=frequent&edit=0) and enter the English word for which you are looking. When I checked, I saw 20 characters that have a sense of love and 10 characters with a sense of hate (oh, and select the Cantonese checkbox to get Cantonese pronounciation in the Yale format in the answer set).
Jeremy R.
passing_through
07-09-2003, 08:50 AM
Ngoi (http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/view.php?dbase=ccdict&query=611B&mode=internal&lang=en&beijing=pinyin&canton=yale&meixian=default&sound=0&fields=jyutping,pinyin,english) is Love
and
Han (http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/view.php?dbase=ccdict&query=6068&mode=internal&lang=en&beijing=pinyin&canton=yale&meixian=default&sound=0&fields=jyutping,pinyin,english) is Hate
(although, Sau (http://www.chinalanguage.com/cgi-bin/view.php?dbase=ccdict&query=4EC7&mode=internal&lang=en&beijing=pinyin&canton=yale&meixian=default&sound=0&fields=jyutping,pinyin,english) and Han together mean hate - the first character has the sense of holding a grudge and the other is hate itself)
Jeremy R.
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