羊, sheep, serves as semantic or phonetic component. Continue reading “Component sheep 羊”
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Homophonic Rhetoric in Chinese
In Chinese, homonyms are applied to produce very interesting rhetorical speech. As the Chinese New Year of the Sheep 羊 yáng is drawing near, you will hear one or some of the following greetings with homophonic rhetoric.
Where is the sheep 羊?
Sheep are docile animals; they were offered by the ancient people to God; they were eaten; etc. In a word, sheep played a very important role. Needlessly to say there are quite a few characters composed of 羊. How is 羊 sheep written in Chinese characters? You can see from the picture 羊 sheep can be written in various ways. All the meanings of the characters here are their original meanings.
