Who knows the Book of Changes has something to do with English?

Original address: Book of Changes and English word formation Author: Sun Chengde

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Everyone who has been to middle school has memorized words, and everyone will have a doubt when memorizing words? Why does this word mean this? We know that China's Chinese characters are pictographic, and the meaning of Chinese characters can be inferred by radicals. Can English infer meaning from the combination of letters? We have studied English for so many years, and why English words mean this has always been an unsolved mystery. This article will reveal the mystery to you.

The Book of Changes is a treasure of the Chinese nation with a history of thousands of years. Some people say that the Book of Changes can cover almost everything in the world. Is this correct? The origin of the Book of Changes is much earlier than English, so can the ancient book of the Book of Changes explain English that seems to have nothing to do with her? This article will answer the above questions for you?

The author studies memory management. I recited the obscure Tao Te Ching two years ago and began to recite the Book of Changes at the beginning of this year. When I recited the Book of Changes, I found that there were essential differences between the Book of Changes and the Tao Te Ching. When I recited the Tao Te Ching, I used rote memorization, while the Book of Changes didn't need rote memorization at all. It was all reasoning. All hexagrams come from the combination of yin and yang, and the symbol of one yin and one yang covers everything in the world, which is really amazing, and we can't help but admire the wisdom of our ancestors.

For work reasons, while reciting the Book of Changes, I also studied how to remember words. Then one day, it suddenly occurred to me that the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes used Yin and Yang to explain everything. Could English be the same? Use a combination of 26 letters to represent everything in the world. With this in mind, I began to collect articles about the origin of English letters. Later, I found the source of 26 English letters, almost every letter originated from an object.

In the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes, Yang Can represents: the old man, the sun, people and leaders; The corresponding yin can represent children, the moon, women, subordinates and so on. Gossip can represent everything in the world, which is how it extends. If 26 letters can represent everything in the world, it must be expanded accordingly.

In the origin of English letters, the letter A stands for ox and horn, which can be extended to upward, forward, farming, food, first and foremost. The angle is long upward, so it can extend to the top; The horn extends forward, extending forward; Cattle are used for farming, which means farming; Farming and harvesting food can be extended to food; The influence of cattle on people's life is very important. A ranks first among 26 letters, so it can be extended to first. Similar to A, all 26 English letters have extended meanings.

After extending the meaning of 26 letters, the author infers the meaning of root according to the ideas of Yi Xue and Eight Diagrams. It is found that the meaning of more than 90% roots can be deduced from the meaning of 26 letters. Then I consulted the dictionary and listed the words with less than 4 letters, and found that most of these words can also be inferred from the extended meaning of 26 letters.

Therefore, I think China's thought of Yi Xue and Eight Diagrams is very similar to English word formation. They are symbols obtained by ancient people observing everything in heaven and earth to explain heaven and earth. English, like Chinese characters, is a hieroglyph.

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Appendix1:the source of 26 letters

The appearance of Roman characters

Since around 3000 BC, ancient Egyptians have been using characters (hieroglyphics) to express the forms of gods, people, animals and plants, and nature (mountains, rivers, etc.). ) to represent the shapes of decorations, weapons, farm tools, daily necessities, etc. This hieroglyph not only influenced the present alphabet, but also influenced Arabic and Hindi characters. Egyptians wrote on plant fibers called papyrus. The word paper comes from papyrus.

During 2000-800 BC, Phoenicians, whose maritime trade was very prosperous, created Phoenician letters based on Egyptian hieroglyphics. Around 1000 BC, the ancient Greeks created a 24-letter alphabet written from left to right with Phoenician letters. The etymology of Alphabet is Greek alpha(a)beta(B).

The Roman alphabet was founded because of the very active Etruscans in 800-500 BC. The reading of the alphabet comes from their reading.

The alphabet used by the ancient Romans for Latin writing is now 26 letters of A-Z minus 23 letters of J, U and W. G is a letter invented by the Romans to distinguish it from the sound [k] of C and record the sound [g]. After entering the10th century, U and V were separated. In the110th century, W was used to indicate the sound of [w], and in the15th century, J and I were separated.

There are many theories about the origin of English letters in the world, but the most common one (according to Fink's The Origin of Words) comes from Hebrew. It should be said that this statement has a certain basis. Because the Bible is the root of western civilization, it records the history of the Jews (Hebrew). Now, the two important etymologies of English, the ancestors of Greece and Latin, are also Hebrew. Hebrew itself is hieroglyphics. Therefore, a large number of words in modern English reveal the characteristics of hieroglyphics. For example, A stands for "bull's head", which means "sharp and sharp", thus leading to various words expressing "sharp" such as "ace", "aciform" and "acid". However, with the continuous development of history and civilization, characters have also incorporated a lot of cultural connotations. Therefore, many modern English words cannot be derived from hieroglyphics, such as the place "apogee", which consists of two parts. Apo means "faraway place" and "gee" means "land", in which apo comes from Apollo, the Apollo sun god, which means "expedition, faraway place". Please listen to the lecture on the origin of vocabulary. The following is a brief analysis of the source of 26 letters, with examples:

Answer

Just as Chinese characters originated from hieroglyphics, each letter in the English alphabet began with pictures depicting the shapes of animals or objects, which eventually evolved into symbols. However, these symbols have little similarity with the shape of the object originally described. No one is sure what these hieroglyphs originally represented. Our explanation can only be an informed guess made by scholars based on historical materials. It is generally believed that Greek letters are the ancestors of all western letters, including Latin letters. In fact, the Greek alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians. About 3000 years ago, in the Phoenician alphabet, the letter A was pronounced aleph, which looked like the letter V, and there was a bar in the middle to represent the cow's head or horn. Later the Greeks wrote backwards. For ancient Phoenicians, cattle meant wealth and were indispensable for food, clothing and farming. This may be the reason why A is listed as the initial letter.

B b

Like A, the letter B can be traced back to ancient Phoenicia. In the Phoenician alphabet, b is called beth, which stands for house. In Hebrew, B is also called Beth, which also means house. The letter B originally looked like a two-bedroom apartment in primitive society, and the lowercase letter B later evolved from the uppercase letter B. In today's West Bank, there is a Jewish and Christian holy place called Bethlehem. Beth is still included in this word. B ranks second in the alphabet, perhaps because shelter is second only to food and clothing for human survival.

C c

The letter c is called gimel in Phoenician writing, which stands for camel. Its arrangement in the alphabet is the same as the Greek letter I(gamma), but in fact its glyph evolved from the latter. C stands for 100 in Roman numerals.

D d

D is a pictographic symbol, which depicts the shape of an ancient arch or door. In ancient Phoenician and Hebrew, it is called daleth, which means "gate" and is equivalent to the Greek letter δ (delta).

E e

E is the most used letter in English. In Phoenician and Hebrew, e is a hieroglyphic symbol representing a window, called He, which is equivalent to the Greek letter E(epsilon).

F fF (the sixth letter of the English alphabet) comes from the sixth pictographic letter in Phoenicia, which looks like the English letter Y today, representing cork or pegs. Its name is waw in Phoenician and Hebrew. In the Middle Ages, the left cheek of a felon was usually marked with an F as a symbol of punishment.

G g

In the ancient Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets, G is a hieroglyphic letter describing the outline of camel's head and neck, and its name is gimel. Later, the Greeks borrowed this symbol as gamma. In fact, the letter G and the letter C come from the same Phoenician letter. There is no letter G in the original Latin alphabet, and words with G and K sounds are represented by the letter C. After the 3rd century A.D., the ancient Romans created G according to C. Since then, C stands for K sound and G stands for G sound.

H h

Like other letters, H can be traced back to Phoenician letters through Latin letters and Greek letters. In Phoenician, the letter corresponding to H has two bars, which respectively represent fences or fences, and the letters are named heth or cheth.

Me, me.

The ninth letter I comes from the Phoenician hieroglyphic letter yod/yodh, which is considered to represent human fingers. The initial lowercase letter I has no dots. After the dot 1 1 century on filii, scribes began to add it to distinguish the letter I from the letter U. In addition, before the19th century, the written or printed forms of I and J were interchangeable, and dictionaries did not regard them as two different letters. For example, in the English dictionary compiled by samuel johnson (1709- 1784), iambic is between jamb and jangle. English I is equivalent to Greek I(iota).

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The letter J came into being around 1630 after the post-Shakespeare era, and V is also called the lightest two letters in the English alphabet. There is no letter J or J in the King James Bible of James I published in 16 1 year. Just as G is based on C, J is derived from I, that is, a tail is added to I. However, until the19th century, the written or printed forms of I and J were interchangeable, and they were not completely separated.

K k

The root of the letter K can also be traced back to the ancient Phoenicians. In the Phoenician alphabet, k is a hieroglyphic symbol, representing the human hand. It is called kaph in Hebrew, which means "hand (palm)". The Greeks borrowed it as K(kappa). In ancient Rome, a slanderer was marked with a K on his forehead, and K stands for kalumnia, which is equivalent to slander in English.

L l

In Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets, L is called lamed/lamedh, which is a hieroglyphic symbol representing ox drive or whip. The corresponding letter in Greek is A(lambda).

M m

Like other letters, m can be traced back to ancient Phoenician. Phoenicians are brave in exploration and are famous for their maritime trade. They sailed all the way to the Spanish coast. In the Phoenician alphabet, m is an icon representing the shape of a wave. It is called mem in Hebrew, which means "water". The corresponding letter in Greek is M(mu). In the middle ages, people who committed manslaut were often branded with the mark of M on their left thumb. M stands for 1000 in Roman numerals (mille in Latin).

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The letter N is wavy in Egyptian hieroglyphics, called nun in Phoenician, which means "fish", while the corresponding letter in Greek is N(nu).

Oh, oh.

Many languages have letters like O, which all represent the human eye. In some ancient alphabets, a dot is added after O to indicate students. In Phoenician, O is called cayin, which means "eyes", and in old English, O is called oedel, which means "home".

P p

P, the16th letter of the English alphabet, was called pe by ancient Phoenicians and Hebrews, meaning "mouth". The corresponding letter in Greek is II(pi). /kloc-In the 6th century, a Dominican friar named Placentius wrote a poem called "Pugna Bo Collum", which consists of 253 lines and six steps, and the first letter of each word in the poem is P, which is probably unique in ancient times and today.

Q q

Q, the17th letter in the English alphabet, evolved from the19th hieroglyphic letter in Phoenician and Hebrew. Q is shaped a bit like a monkey with its tail hanging. No wonder the Phoenicians called the letter qoph, which means "monkey". Q is almost always followed by U in English, and unless it is a foreign word, it rarely appears at the end of the word.

R rR, the18th letter of the English alphabet, evolved from the 20th hieroglyphic letter in Phoenician and Hebrew. The Phoenicians called it resh, which means "head". Since ancient Roman times, R has been called the dog's letter or growling letter, because the meaning of R is very similar to the dog's barking R-R-R or G R-R-R. British playwright and poet ben johnson (1572-1637)1636 wrote in his book An English Grammar for the benefit of all strangers: "R belongs to dogs.

Letters, and hurried voices; The tongue hits the inner palate and emits

Teeth tremble. "In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's nanny and Romeo talked about his surname, saying that Romeo and rosemary, which are often associated with weddings, all start with the letter R and are called R dog names.

S s

In Phoenician and Hebrew, s is called shin/sin, which means "tooth". The shape of letters is quite similar to that of today's W, but now the glyphs are gradually evolved after entering Latin. The corresponding letter in Greek is ε(sigma).

T t

Today's letter T comes from the Phoenician hieroglyph "Mother of Silence". Early hieroglyphics, like today's letter X, were called taw, which means "mark". The Greek letter based on this symbol is T(tau).

U u

The letter U comes from the letter V. For hundreds of years before19th century, these two letters, like I and J, have always been interchangeable and have never been distinguished in English dictionaries. For example, books published in 16 and 17 centuries are usually spelled upon, while have is usually spelled haue. Even in 1847, the English dictionary published by Henry washburne Company in London still followed this convention.

V v

V is one of the two youngest letters in the English alphabet (plus a j), which appeared after Shakespeare's time, about 1630. But V is also the ancestor of three letters, such as U, W, Y, and even F can be said to be derived from V, which originated from the sixth hieroglyphic letter in the Phoenician alphabet about 1000 BC. It is similar to the English letter Y today and is called waw, meaning "cork" or "wooden nail". After 900 BC, the Greeks borrowed this letter and derived two letters, one of which later evolved into the English letter F, and the other evolved into V and Y. Before19th century, the letters V and U were inseparable and interchangeable. In Roman numerals, v stands for 5.

W w

W, like U and Y, is also derived from V. In fact, W is composed of double V, which should be read as double V..w is read as double U, because U and V were inseparable and interchangeable centuries before19th century. V is the symbol of V and U. Even when U is pronounced, it is often written as V. For example, upon is often spelled vpon. French letters are pronounced as double v.

xx

The 24th letter of the English alphabet is equivalent to the 22nd letter X(chi) of the Greek alphabet. In fact, the former is borrowed from the latter, while the latter comes from a Phoenician hieroglyphic letter representing "fish", pronounced samekh. X stands for 10 in Roman numerals, and is usually used to represent unknowns in algebra and mathematics. When algebra was introduced into Europe from Arabia, the word shei, which means "unknown" in Arabic, was translated into xei, so the initials X became the common code name of unknown. There is another saying about the origin of the letter X: X was originally a pictographic symbol for kissing. If it's written as an X, it's a bit like kissing with two mouths. This explanation may come from folk etymology.

Yy

Y can be said to come from V, but it can be traced back to the Greek letter υ (upsilon) called Pythagoras. Y is often used in algebra to represent the second unknown.

zigzag

Z is pronounced Zed in British English, zee in American English, but izzard in old English. Z comes from the sixth letter Z(zeta) in Greek and is borrowed from Phoenician. Z basically means Zeus, the master of the universe.

Appendix 2: Extended Meaning of 26 English Letters

A horn: cattle, forward (arrival), upward, first, farming, food, cattle.

Room b: rear, bag, selection, stability, private, settlement and tent.

C Camel: region, transportation, walking, storage, strength, hump, bag, skin, inclusion, animal, crossing, covering (object), shell, 100, hump (top)

D door: down, protection, blocking, identification, writing, printing, engraving, safety, closing, opening/closing and passing.

E window: look, stretch, stretch, extend, rotate, outward, light, penetrate, close, push,

F wooden nails/nails: surface, external surface, adhesion, floating, prisoners, scars, branding, instruments of torture, law, denial, restriction, crime, trial, struggle, imprisonment, prison,

G camel head and neck: pulling, cutting, twisting, wrist, planting, wood, stick, grass, direction, pipeline, lifting, pulling, judging, spitting, breathing and sucking.

H fence: circle, enclosure, triviality, high wall, fence, barrier, boundary, enclosure, climbing, area, courtyard, adjacency, connection, arrangement,

I refers to: point, finger, hand, Mars, target (front), hook, control, press, point and insert.

J I's tail: grab, pinch, grab, be flexible, fist, change, grab, pinch, pinch, dig and tighten.

K palm: hand, open, stretch, push, fan, hold, press, slander, rub,

L flogging: pulling, whipping, beating, swinging, restraining, punishing, pestering, tying, beating, suffering, driving and taming.

M wave, water: continuous, breast milk, thousand, drifting, impact, flapping, lifting, pushing, swinging, shaking, waves.

N fish: closing chin, opening, holding, swinging, shaking, soaking, catching, fishing, jumping and coloring.

Eyes: home, pinch, circle, turn, cycle, close, observe, signal, display, bright, light, food.

P mouth: close, close, close, open, blow, tight, spray, spit, contain, suck and flatten.

Q monkey: (claw) buckle, gather, grab, grab, be smart, jump, become warped, be impatient, and have fun in all aspects.

R head, dog: shaking, vitality, fur, turbulence, persistence, detective, guard, long, licking, remembering the road, being alert, friends, catching, high-level, running, weeds.

S teeth: tongue and mouth, biting, closing, knocking, tearing, female (body), sticky, broken, hard, chewing, sharp, leaking, trembling, imprint, trace, similarity and solidity.

T symbol: immutable (fixed), symbol, permanence, description, information, symbol, character, identification, indication, representation, conciseness, difference,

U is greater than v: cork hole, nail hole, inclusion, container, lake, adequacy and spacing.

Five, wooden stakes, wooden nails: wooden stakes can be moved, pulled, inserted, nailed (pegs), (firmly) fixed and defended.

W two "V": bolt, safety device (two bolts, double safety), torsion, safety,

X unknown: confused, staggered, wrong, kissing

There are tails under Yv: cracks (caused by nails), cracks, rebirth, bifurcation, branches, the second unknown,

Z Zeus: authority, supremacy, worship, God, fanaticism, electricity, Lord.

Appendix 3: Explain the common roots headed by a with the extended meanings of letters.

Law of vowels: Many times vowels only connect up and down in words, so some vowels have no meaning in words.

According to the law of vowels, some vowels in the root are meaningless, so I ignored some vowels in my analysis, such as the e in alter, which is meaningless, and I ignored it in my analysis.

1, ab: opposite; A means forward and b means backward; Forward and backward are opposite, so ab means opposite.

2.abol: abolished; Ab' opposite', l' pull'; Pulling the opponent out can be understood as abolishing the opponent.

3. acu: sharpening; A' up', c' top' u' nail the process of sharpening the top like a nail.

4. behavior: action; A' front', c' cover' and t' fixed'; Cover and fixed forward, such as military actions such as police and military repression, extended to action.

5.ag: moving and handling; A' front', g' stick'; Walking with a stick means that the old man walks. The old man walked slowly, as if he were moving, which means moving.

6. Ago: guidance and competition; Ag' moving', o' light'; Move to the bright place, because there is light guidance, you can go to the bright place, that is, guidance.

7.agon: competition; Ag' move', o' light', n' take move to the bright east and west (jewelry) to get it, because everyone will get it, so they will fight for it.

8. Agriculture: fields and farmland; Ag' moving', r' weeds'; Moving weeds only occur in farmland and extend to farmland.

9.al: complete; A' up' and a' pull'; Pull it down from the roof and you can see it from below.

10, alb: white; Al' completely', b' tent'; It's completely the color of the tent. Tents are usually white.

1 1, Ali: something else, something else; A' before', l' pull', I' a little'; Pull it forward a little, go to someone else's place, and extend it to something else, something else.

12, alt: high; A' up', l' pull' and t' fixed'; Pull something up and fix it, and it will be high.

13, alter: change; Alt'' high', r' dynamic'; High-level decision-makers have moved, and they must have changed a lot, which means change.

14, am: love; A' before', m' mother'; Jumping forward to your mother is a sign of love, which is extended to love.

15, Amo: I love it; Reference am love.

16, ampl: broad; A' front', m' water', p' open' and l' pull'; The waters ahead can be opened and sails can be raised. This water area must be wide and extend to wide.

17, An: No, one; A' front', n' shrink', the hand that goes forward shrinks back, which means I don't want it, which means I don't want it.

18, ang: sharp corner; A' up', n' down', g' stick'; A wooden stick, such as a pencil, that shrinks upward is elongated into a sharp corner.

19, angle: acute angle; Ang'' sharp corner'', l' pull', the back of the sharp corner is elongated and more sharp.

20.angul: sharp corner; According to the vowel law, u can be ignored, so it is the same as angl.

2 1, animation: life, spirit; A' up', n' down', m' breast milk'; The upward contraction of breast milk, the action of children sucking milk and eating are the basis of maintaining life and extending to life.

22. Ann: Year; A' one', n: pick it up; A pick-up can continue to a harvest, and a harvest is a year.

23. Ante: First; One' forward', n' take' and t' fixed'; When you pick up something that is fixed forward, you must get it before others.

24. against: against; A' no', t' instruction; Failure to give instructions means disapproval, and opposition to this matter is extended to opposition.

25. opening: a' up', p' off', e' push' and r' move'; Push the top, and the action of opening the lid extends to opening.

26. Grandma: Leave; A' forward', p' mouth', o' circle'; A round thing that comes forward from the mouth, spits and spits, indicating leaving.

27.apt: capacity cooperation; A' up', p' suction' and t' fixed'; Being able to hold something fixed is a very advantageous ability, which is extended to ability.

28.aqu: water; A' cow', q' mouth' and u' lake'; The cow sticks its mouth into the lake to drink water.

29.aqua: related to water; Refer to aqu combined with vowel rule.

30.ar: plow: a' cow', r' moving'; Cattle move is to pull a plow, which means to plow the land.

3 1, arc: bending; A' bull', R' head', C' peak', the peak on the bull's head, that is, the angle, is curved and extends into a curve.

32. Aude: Listen; A' Lord', D' Gate', you can inquire about the news well at the gate of the Lord, which means listening and listening.

33. They are: rings; A' cow', r' head', e' stretch What sticks out from the cow's head, the cow's nose ring, extends into a ring.

34. Area: empty; Refers to the' ring'. The middle of the ring is hollow and the extension is empty.

35. Art: fine arts; A' up', r' vitality', t' long living things on the wall will not be taken down for a long time. It must be a good work of art, and it extends to art ..

36.ars: fine arts; S and t have fixed meanings, so art is the same as ars.

37.8 months: increase; A' up', u' together', g' grass'; Some straw was collected on it, and the height and extension of firewood increased.

38.aur: gold; A' main', u' nail' and r' head are mainly made of metal, such as hammer, extending to metal and gold.

39, auto: automatic, itself; A' front', u' convergence', t' determination', o' food'; There is fixed food in front, and people and animals will get it automatically, which means automatically.

40.av: birds; A' up', v' cork The cork that pushes the cage up can only be done by flying animals, that is, birds.

4 1, avi: bird; Refer to vowel law and av.

Note: The author has analyzed most of the root causes. Due to the limited space, only 40 roots starting with a are provided here to show that this analysis method is not only applicable to a single root, but also to most roots.

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