minus-squaremarilyn@mathstodon.xyztoLearn Japanese@lemmy.ml•Where does this extra stroke come from in the kanji for cicada?linkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months ago@x4740N It looks normal to me? In general, 虫 means bug/insect. According to Wiktionary, it originally derived from an ancient Chinese snake glyph: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%99%AB I didn’t know about the etymology before, but it makes sense (given that 蛇 means “snake”). linkfedilink
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@x4740N It looks normal to me? In general, 虫 means bug/insect. According to Wiktionary, it originally derived from an ancient Chinese snake glyph: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%99%AB
I didn’t know about the etymology before, but it makes sense (given that 蛇 means “snake”).