Re: Japanese "good", consonant clusters etc.

--- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
> The kanji for "beauty" is rather interesting.  :-)
> "sheep" + "big"  A
> big sheep was a desirable thing, thus the
> combination was used for
> "desirable", which came to mean "beautiful"
>
Really?  The kanji is sheep+big?  I find that an
interesting mangling since the hanzi is sheep+woman!

Adam

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