Re^3: Croaking and Carping

[halley]

Hm, not that I see. Japanese characters are the same as Chinese characters in most cases, but maybe there's a difference. The Japanese kanji for marriage (tie, conclude) is a combination of a thread-spool, a soldier, and a mouth. Kind of like "tie the knot." The mouth component is a box, but it's not surrounding the soldier. No woman component is explicitly included.

Though if you take the soldier out and put in a roof, you get the symbol for "pay." Maybe there's something to be said for that.

[Duco]

OK, I did a little more research on this, using babelfish.

I believe this is the symbol in question:

姻

And this is woman, which certainly appears to the left side of the marriage symbol, squooshed up:

女

I can only assume that the stick figure in the box is the man.