BLUE YU
July 10th 2008 06:36
BLUE YU
On a whim I have decided to do a blog on rare words.
Specifically unusual Chinese words written with more than 20 strokes per character.
The longest I could find was Nang which is a verb meaning to have a stuffed up nose.
It's character has 27 parts to it!
One of the strangest characters I found was YU which has two meanings.
The first meaning is luxuriant dense lush growth but the second meaning is to be "in the blues" gloomy and depressed!
In Japanese the same characters which has about 29 strokes in the full form though there is a modern abbreviated form has the primary meaning of being depressed UTSU Us(suru) but the secondary meaning which is primary in Chinese appears in a compound ussoo which means luxurious foliage.
i have a strong suspicion this character was developed by some nervous agoraphobic ancient Chinese scribe forced to journey through the thick growth of some vanished semitropical forest on an embassy to South West China?
Clearly not a wilderness loving Taoist?
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