Interesting. I went through 3 of my Japanese
dictionaries and I get a few other meanings for suizen
as well. Heres what I found. Ofcourse these are
based on my translation from Japanese to english.=20
Water Wheel
recommendation
narcissus
Reflection
grain
Cheers,
Isaac
--- Karl Signell <signell@cpcug.org> wrote:
> At 12:49 PM 3/22/2004 -0600, Deana Dearry wrote:
> > I looked up the Japanese word for daffodil. Is
> there a Suisen/Sui Zen=20
> > correlation?
>=20
> Look at the kanji (Sino-Japanese characters) for
> daffodil. Sui =3D water,=20
> Sen =3D sprite. Water-sprite, a poetic term. Some
> types of daffodils grow=20
> in shallow water.
>=20
> Look at the kanji for Sui Zen. Sui =3D blow, Zen =3D
> emptiness. Blowing=20
> emptiness (without expression).
>=20
> Suisen could also mean "flushing" or "perpendicular
> line," etc., depending=20
> on the characters. Japanese has lots of homonyms.=20
> "T=F4ky=F4" is not the=20
> reverse of "Ky=F4to." They have only one character in
> common, and the vowel=20
> lengths differ. So besides different characters
> that have the same=20
> pronunciation but different meanings, Japanese has
> syllables that might=20
> sound the same to the Western ear but differ in
> vowel length.
>=20
> Karl
>=20
>=20
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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