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About kanji origin - 01-29-2008, 10:25 PM

I'v found some kanji and try to analyse them. Is it some relation between each of them and subjects that are connected with them? When I look at canji I think: Why ansient people decided that the Moon (Tsuki), for example, must be represented by rectangle with two "legs"? Or why the one part of kanji "Cat (Neko)" rather seems to be a "window"?

The left parts of kanji "Cat (Neko)" and "Wolf (Ookami)" are the same, so I could suppose that it means "Animal" (because cat and wolf are animals - what other common thing could be between them in spite of four legs?). But in that case why in the kanji "Independence (Dokuritsu)" we can see that symbol? Maybe because sometimes we joke about cat that she walks where she wants?

I'm interesting what was the history of different kanji origin. How did people think when they writed them at first time? Can someone tell something about it?
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