"Zhang"(wasRe: English Beast, etc. (was Re: English syllable structure)

In a message dated 14.12.2001 02:39:56 AM, Adam (dreamertwo@HOTMAIL.COM)
quotes me & writes:

>>     The particular character for my family name has connotations of
>>_Ever-ready_ - sorta like an "advertising surname" for my wiley
>>"semi-civilized" ancestors. The earliest Zhangs probably were "mercenaries"
>>or _yu-hsia_ {"wandering-force"} during the Warring States Period (475-221
>>BCE).).
<<SNiP>>
>Eh??  So you're not Zhang1 with the bow radical?  Are you Zhang3 with the
>person radical?  Or Zhang4 meaning weaponsof war?
    The less _common_ Zhang3 ;)   Zhang1 and Zhang4 IIRC don't have the
ancient connotation of _Everready_ (or the more recent (*) one of
"blueblooded Han").

    (*) "recent" meaning - in this context - "since Confucious' time" (one of
my ancestors' was a somewhat-troublesome disciple of Confucious prone to
playin' Devil's Advocate at every chance with the Master-Teacher)

czHANgie, One-of-Many Avatars of Sun WuKong, a.k.a. "Monkey," a.k.a.
"TricksterGod of the Han Chinese"; ) Agent Provocateur of/for the Dark Gods
of Creative Chaos  ; )

Verfremdungseffekt << ostraneniye >> //effetto alienazione//

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