[SeekAndFind]

MA ( AS IN MOTHER ) IN CHINESE:


MA ( AS IN HORSE ) IN CHINESE:


Notice the right radical in the ideograms for Mother and Horse. They are similar. The only difference is the Left radical of "mother" in Chinese, which is the symbol for Woman.



Shhhh... Don;t let the gender neutral types know this in the USA, they might mis-educate Chinese foreign students who will go home and demand gender neutral idiograms :)

[chajin]

Interesting; the Japanese kanji for "mother" is 母 , which is supposed to be a stylized rendition of breasts with nipples, as if the woman were lying down on her side (to nurse?).

[Verginius Rufus]

It doesn’t take much imagination to see the ideogram for Horse as having originally been a drawing of a horse. In the simplified version of the ideogram adopted by Red China, the resemblance is lost.