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The 3 characters below are one kind of Chinese combined characters , commonly used in writing Spring Festival couplets ( 春聯、春联 ) during the Lunar New Year ( 農曆新年、农历新年 ) :
● (L) : 日進斗金 ( rì jìn dòu jīn ) earning a dou (decaliter) of gold daily ——> 日 = day , 進 = enter , 斗 = dou , 金 = gold . ( Here 斗 ( dǒu ) is the dry measure for grain roughly equal to 1 decaliter )
● (M) : 吉祥如意 ( jí xiáng rú yì ) auspicious and as desired ——> 吉祥 = auspicious , 如意 = as one wishes ( 如 & 吉 use the same 口 ) .
● (R) : 黃金萬兩 ( huán gjīn wàn liǎng ) ten thousand taels of gold ——> 黃金 = gold , 萬 = 10,000 , 兩 = tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams . ( The character "兩" is the The lower part of the haracter "萬" ( 万 )
PS :
There are different names and meanings of 合体字 , such as 合成字、合字、合文 .... etc. basicaally,they are the character formed by combining independent characters or the parts of characters
( 上 ) : 他 = he ( 人+也 )、她 = she ( 女+也 )、它 = it ( things or animals )
( 下 ) : 祂 = He ( god , 示 +也 )、【 忚 】( read as xī or liě ) 、牠 = it ( animals , 牛 + 也 )
● We can notice 也 is the common part of those characters,and there is a different character 它 ! What is the meaning of 它 ?
The character 它 shares the same origin of 虫 and 也 ,all are the image of 蛇 ( snake ) ,and 虵 ( shé ,虫 + 也 ) is a variant character of 【 蛇 】( 虫 + 它 ) .
● In the eyes of the ancients, the snake was " the opposite of humankind " , so 它 was used to refer to everything other than humans , and 也 is a variant of 它 !
PS :
忚 = 心 + 也 ( heart + snake ) = xī ( deception ; contempt ) ; or liě ( the heart does not desire )