Hi,
According to this page (in Chinese):
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/search.php?q=%D7%C3
袓 has two literal meanings. One is "hobby", the other is "beauty of the white color" (hope I translate it correctly).
Sometimes the character will be confused with 祖 because they look very similar. 祖 means "ancestor".
I heart the character 袓 is been randomly chosen to be used on the Wikipedia logo. If this is correct then I would be a little surprised because the meaning "beauty of the white color" is very suitable for current Wikipedia logo.
H.T.
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jon Harald Soby Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:23 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The Chinese New Year Wikipedia Logo
IMO, this logo looks great. It is considerably better than the one used last year (which was, no offense, quite horrible). Just one question: You say that the character 袓 is exchanged with 豬, which means pig. What does 袓 mean?
On 2/16/07, THD theodoranian@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
2 days later, it will be the Chinese New Year, and some Chinese Wikipedian has made the Chinese New Year celebration
Wikipedia logo.
During the Chinese New Year period (Feb. 18 to 23), I think Chinese Wikipedians are proposing a celebration of new year on Chinese Wikipedia. You can take a look of this logo, http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki_pig.png
There are 2 changes:
- The logo is using red color which means happiness and
celebration
in Chinese community. 2. The logo is changing the original Chinese character 袓 to 豬,the later one 豬 means pig. This year is the year of pig.
Please comment.
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