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What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:47 pm
by RBerenguel
Appears in a result page in a tsumego book. I think it's "variation" (at least appears in solutions that look plausible, but different from the "correct" variation) but couldn't find it in Sensei's.
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:53 pm
by macelee
It roughly means 'explanation'.
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:01 pm
by RBerenguel
macelee wrote:It roughly means 'explanation'.
Thanks! Now I get it, it's why white (or black) does answer in a certain way when it looks like another way would make sense.
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:44 pm
by Codexus
I love it when a Chinese word is identical to Japanese (well minus the character simplification) and it actually means the same thing for once!
By the way, I recommend
http://www.nciku.com/ as an excellent Chinese dictionary, it does handwriting character recognition too.
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:15 am
by EdLee
RBerenguel,
説明
说明
shuo1ming2
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:59 am
by Kaliwan
Codexus It's actually the other way around since Japan implemented variations from the Chinese writing system
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 4:19 am
by Codexus
Kaliwan wrote:Codexus It's actually the other way around since Japan implemented variations from the Chinese writing system
Of course, I didn't mean to imply it went the other way around. (The simplification is more recent though, but that's another story)
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:53 am
by tekesta
It must mean "explanation"; in Japanese 説明 (setsumei), means just that. When it occurs as a verb it is 説明する (setsumei suru), literally "to do explanation". The Chinese word marked in the photo means the same thing. I went to zhongwen.com and looked up the first character to confirm this. According to the website result, the word is pronounced shūomíng.
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:59 am
by tekesta
Codexus wrote:I love it when a Chinese word is identical to Japanese (well minus the character simplification) and it actually means the same thing for once!
Most Japanese words of Chinese origin have meanings identical to their Chinese counterparts - even though they are written somewhat differently nowadays. Also, some Japanese
kanji are simplified versions of traditional Chinese characters. For example, compare
発 and
發. Then compare these with
发.
Re: What does this chinese character(s) mean?
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 10:11 am
by Kirby
tekesta wrote:Most Japanese words of Chinese origin have meanings identical to their Chinese counterparts - even though they are written somewhat differently nowadays.
Take, for example, 大丈夫, right?