Gou equals Network?
August 20th 2008 04:52
Gou equals Network?
Is this character GOU "Phonetic
Take a look at this Chinese Character. Most reference books that include it refere to it as a phonetic and it is rarely used as an independent noun. When it is in modern Chinese it means inner rooms of a palace but the original meaning was probably far different.
Open a Chinese dictionary or a dictionary of Japanese kanji. Look under gou or kou or Koo.
Most of the words using this "phonetic" have meanings that imply that the object is part of a network or framework of connecting parts.
Is this really a phonetic?
I really feel that scholars should pont out when writing books on Chiense characters and their development that sometimes "phonetics" can have a semantic function.
One book that I own points that that the word / character may have originally meant somethings like the web or web of crisscrossed rafters and roof supports in a building.
What do you think?
I think its a shame no one has revived the older meaning of this word for modern science and technology use to describe networks?
Okay wang has less strokes but still ...
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Comment by Wilson Pon
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The "Gou" is meaning Drains or something that can be connected together...
By the way, love the word here
Comment by Julie Vaux
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It's a pity no one's thought to revive this word to use to describe modern technology.
By the way if anyone wants to look up this character it is listed on the Unihan database under radical 13!
Which is where I found the unicode to generate the image of the character!
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