Mandarin Character for Electricity
? is used in many words relating to modern, electrically-powered things. For example, ?? (electricity - shadow) means "film", ?? (electricity - to look at) means "TV", and ?? (electricity - brain) means "computer".
Notes:
Describes interesting interactions with people in how the word is used in "film," "television," and "computer."
Folksonomies: semantics chinese sinology
Taxonomies:
/business and industrial/energy/electricity (0.686363)
/science/social science/linguistics/translation (0.157472)
/art and entertainment/movies and tv/television (0.116473)
Keywords:
Describes interesting interactions (0.947802 (neutral:0.000000)), Mandarin Character (0.595197 (neutral:0.000000)), electricity (0.590549 (neutral:0.000000)), electrically-powered things (0.504352 (neutral:0.000000)), film (0.233561 (neutral:0.000000)), shadow (0.204520 (neutral:0.000000)), example (0.202070 (neutral:0.000000))
Concepts:
Vacuum tube (0.932661): dbpedia | freebase
Schemas
The Beauty of Chinese Characters
Memes on how Chinese characters build upon each other to produce new characters with interesting meanings.
