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| Keywords: U5973-radical-38 early-form.svg A slightly schematized version of an early form of the Chinese character which is U5973 in the Unicode character set encoding standard i e Radical 38 or the basic woman character <big>女</big> modern Mandarin pronunciation nǚ Selectively takes certain details from different early attestations in order to bring out the basic quasi-pictographic nature of the character depicting a kneeling woman rather than being a precise copy of any one particular early attestation Based on the following sources Grammata Serica Script and Phonetics in Chinese and Sino-Japanese by Bernhard Karlgren first published 1940 page 150 sign group 94 The Etymologies of 3000 Chinese Characters in Common Usage by Chang Hsüan Zhang Xuan 1968 page 200 Online website http //www internationalscientific org/CharacterASP/CharacterEtymology aspx characterInput E5 A5 B3 submitButton1 Etymology Richard Sears For particular early attested forms at Wikimedia Commons see Image 女-oracle svg Image 女-bronze svg and Image 女-oracle gif For another somewhat similar image see en Image Character Nuu Oracle png The exact visual symbolism of the upper half of this early woman character has been debated; probably it depicts her with her hands folded or held close together attending to some task while the two small enclosed areas were also meant to suggest her breasts as seen from the fact that the early form of the Radical 080 mother character U6BCD <big>母</big> was based on the woman character with two dots added there ---- Forme originelle du caractère chinois U5973 dans Unicode qui signifie « femme » et qui est une représentation d'une femme agenouillée 女 038 0 s | ||||
