Odd that the 'head' is mirrored. The real kanji is 骨。agree it looks like a lil skeleton guy though.

Am I loosing it?

It looks the same. Not mirrored at all

Google translate shows the character backwards, for some reason.

Weird, both versions seem to exist.

Wiktionary

Here is an example of stroke order, showing the phone kanji is backwards.

https://jitenon.com/kanji/骨

Well, how do you think most ideographics were created? Graphical representation of an idea.

Creative ngl.

Losing*, ironically. 😜

I'm no expert, but it was described to me years ago by native Chinese speakers that many of the characters are written like that 🤩 "Man", "woman", "cart", "gate/door", etc. Pictograph origins🖖🏼.

Seems simplified Chinese uses that version. But Kanji is Japanese.

Thank you! I couldn't work out how it was backwards when every version I saw of it looked the same.

What's bone daddy?

It's a Unicode CJK variant. There are a bunch of characters that Unicode considers to be the same character but with small regional differences (e.g. how it's written in Mainland China vs. Taiwan vs. Japan vs. Korea, etc.). Since the region isn't encoded in the character, you're seeing whatever your system locale and font default to. For web pages, you can specify the region inside the HTML or HTTP headers and hopefully you get the correct character rendering, but that also requires you to have a font installed that includes the variant.

https://www.typotheque.com/articles/understanding-cjk-regional-character-variants

Japanese: 骨

Simplified: 骨

No, they're tightening it.

This is what I see.

That little top part (冎) is the how it was originally drawn. It's supposed to look like a bone. It's more pronounced in the earlier drawings.

The bottom part (which is the kanji for moon and month) as a radical often means something like "flesh", and is present in the kanji for body parts.

So I don't think the whole thing was intended to be the pictograph of a skellington, or at least can't say for sure.

That's what all 203 of my bones look like anyway

Nm, what's bone witchu?

Why would you lie about that

Weird, on my phone the character rendered like it is in the picture

huh?

New Binding of Isaac familiar just dropped.

Looks like a Dalex

Almost White Wolf Hermetic Forces

Try ⾻ (ideograph U+2FBB) vs. 骨 (CJK "bone" used in Asian Typography, different Asian fonts may show differently).

Reminds me of the early vaporwave artist called 骨架的

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tD064_ifO7w

a skellington

Weird

heres those kanji for reference:

Person: 人

Man: 男

Woman:　女

Cart:　車

Gate:　門

Fascinating, thanks!

So one the unique things about 月 is it contains several other character depending the context. In this case, 月 represents 肉 or flesh. My interpretation of the character is the bones that suspends flesh.

Here's more context specific transformations of 月 in other characters

A lot of characters in Asian languages look like the thing the symbol represents. Can't remember which language it was, but it has characters for "house," "home," and "family" that all look like slight variations to a simple drawing of a house.

Probably a Japanese or Korean font. 過 probably shows up on the right as well for you.

Samsung phone, would make sense.

yeah that's what gets me, like it would make getting context easy, but remembering which fine detail just won't stick in my head.

黽 黾

měng is a Chinese character for frog or toad

another one i'm a bit blown away by but might not be totally accurate

狗

Guo, for dog, is like a dog lieing down, 犭, the character for mouth, 口 and the character meaning 'wrap' 勹, like your arms wrapped around your mouth talking to a dog, who obviously understands you

I also really like

看

kàn meaning 'to look', which is the character for hand 手 above the character for eye 目 🫡

I've been practaticing a lot this year and I'm finally starting to get some of this to click

@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com Thanks! 🤩🖖🏼

Also, is "man" essentially a field character atop a sword/weapon one?

I think the lower part カ I think means power, so field power, ie. A man has the power to plow a field

Ah! I had them mixed up, as sword seems a very close relative: 刀 vs. カ

There are thousands of Asian languages. Chinese and Japanese are the only languages that still use a logographic system. Korean also uses Chinese characters but only for special purposes, like academia.

How bout 未 vs 末 ?

Isn't that Waymo? 🤪 Ah, good ol' End/Not Future. What a prescient malaprop.