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You Have to Be Crazy to Get Married

Posted by Jordyne Wu on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 @ 09:07 PM
 

The following is a guest post by Jordyne Wu (@jordyne), famous author of the Blog on Shanghai and China on jordyne.com, and HubSpot business development executive.

My favorite Chinese character is 婚 (=hun1  = to marry/marriage).  Like many Chinese characters, it is actually composed of two different words: one that indicates sound and one that indicates meaning. 

The right character, 昏 (=hun1) is a word in itself.  It is the same sound and tone as 婚 (=hun1) so is meant to give people a phonetic hint.  Except this 昏 (=hun1) means "confused; muddle-headed; to lose consciousness."

The left character, 女 (=nu3) is the Chinese character for female or woman.  This radical is meant to give the character meaning-- that the word 婚 has something to do with women.

So, put the two together and "to marry/marriage" literally means, "you have to be crazy to get married to a woman" or "women must be crazy to get married"-- both probably true.

Those ancient Chinese... clever, wise and a sense of humor!

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Yes I think people are crazy to get married these days. Marriage has turned out to be another tool used by the religious institutions to control and manipulate the masses. An how that was embodied in law is confirmation of people trying to control others.
Posted @ Friday, July 09, 2010 10:18 PM by Robin
i'm married to john! yay! :)
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CONGRATULATIONS on your craziness Naomi and John!!
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