Via Sean at NeoChaEDGE, here’s a cool visual representation of the Chinese characters of various food items.
Can you tell what each of these items are?
Answers after the jump:
From left to right, top to bottom:
羊: sheep
牛: cow, ox
猪: pig
葱: onion
蒜: garlic
鱼: fish
虾: shrimp
蟹: crab
菜: vegetables
笋: shoots (also part of the word for asparagus: 芦笋)
鸡: chicken
鸭: duck
鹅: goose
蛋: eggs
竹: bamboo
茄: eggplant
菇: mushroom
瓜: melon
藕: lotus root
萝: carrot
苹: apple
梨: plum
橙: orange
柠: lemon
莓: strawberry
米: wild rice
饭: cooked rice, meal
豆: bean
萄: grape
桃: peach
Comments 2
To an untrained eye, the actual characters look nothing like the visual representations. I can obviously see a fish in the representation, but the character sure as hell looks like some interconnected lines that form a rectangle that is bisected both horizontally and vertically with other lines.
And honestly, I think the English word “eggs” looks more like an egg than the Chinese word. There are some round stuff in the ‘g’s
Posted 30 Oct 2009 at 9:24 pm ¶Jascha,
I agree- few modern characters, especially the simplified ones we use on the mainland, look anything like their meaning. There are exceptions though; one of my favorite words in Chinese is rainforest, which looks like this: 雨林.
Posted 01 Nov 2009 at 8:30 pm ¶Post a Comment