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the chinese character "xin" (japanese "kokoro") means both "heart" and "mind" and it's cool to think about speaking a language where those are the same word.
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I didn't consider this before, but I wonder if that's subconsciously why my document with subheaders
[Musings on mind/soul/spirit/body…] has content, and
[Musings on the dualism of the soul and spirit…] has content,
but [Musings on the heart...] has no content.
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fun fact that you may already know: the Sino-Japanese pronunciation of 心 is "shin"
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iirc the other radicals are
thinking logically - rice paddy
thinking emotionally - tree + eye
like agriculture vs looking at nature??
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might be mistaken but i think the second one is the same as the character used for "like" (as in to like something) in mandarin, which is quite おもしろい
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