join_the_iww [he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoWhat is your opinion of this tweet?hexbear.netimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 months agoAbout the “工” in his display name… Japanese word “工”, mean “construction” “工” (ko) means “construction” I assume it means basically the same thing in Chinese.
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 months agoThat’s pretty cool the word (symbol? character?) for construction looks like an I beam.
minus-squareGrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-29 months agoPictographs can be fun like that. Like the character for “fire” 火 looks kinda like a camp fire. You got your little pyramid of wood and two little “flames” coming off it.
minus-squarebendan [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months agoit originally depicted some variant of this but yeah the I-beam definitely helped cement* the continued use of this character *
minus-squarebendan [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoyup: tool > technique > work > industry, and branching off into “construction” from somewhere in there
minus-squareWhat_Religion_R_They [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months ago共产党 -> 工产党 😱
About the “工” in his display name…
I assume it means basically the same thing in Chinese.
That’s pretty cool the word (symbol? character?) for construction looks like an I beam.
Pictographs can be fun like that. Like the character for “fire” 火 looks kinda like a camp fire. You got your little pyramid of wood and two little “flames” coming off it.
it originally depicted some variant of this but yeah the I-beam definitely helped cement* the continued use of this character
*
yup: tool > technique > work > industry, and branching off into “construction” from somewhere in there
共产党 -> 工产党 😱