有个形容斗蟋蟀的中文词叫“秋兴”,按大意译成英文就是“autumn enjoyment”(秋天的娱乐),而在古代汉字中,“秋”这个字正是蟋蟀的象形。
A Chinese term for cricket fighting, qiu xing, roughly translates as' autumn enjoyment, 'and the ancient Chinese character for autumn is a pictogram of a cricket.
台北一所小学的老师最近开了一堂课,讲述汉字如何起源于象形字。
At a Taipei primary school, a teacher recently gave a lesson on how Chinese words originated from drawings of what they represented.
所以这个项目就致力于把汉语与对应的象形图融合起来——我们称之为“Mandagram”(汉字表意图)。
So the project concentrates on merging Mandarin with appropriate pictograms - we call them Mandagrams.
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