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afiori on June 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the Magic: The Gathering Color Wheel Explains ...

As once it was explained to me, most ideograms can be used as an independent word, but most words are 2 or 3 ideograms long. If I remember correctly an example was faucet=water+dragon

7C34B74B on June 10, 2020 [–]

Faucet is dragon 龍 + head 頭. This mostly comes from the shape looking like a dragon statue, and water is stongly associated to dragons.

afiori on June 10, 2020 | [–]

Thank you for the correction, probably my memory got confused over time.

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