A question for Art

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

So, Art, what does 三体 mean? I assume . . . Japanese?

domo arigato!

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Literal translation is three body, it's the actual original title of the novel.

Domo arigato = どうもありがとう。
✌

[Kateblue, 2nd star to the right and straight on til morning]

どうもありがとう is the only thing I remember from the one semester of Japanese I took in college. I have absolutely zero talent for languages, so I really admire so many of you who are multilingual

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

oh, I knew 'three' but wasn't sure about second part.

[Bryan, Village Idiot]

I straight up google translated it last week

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

I thought about word 'body'. It is interesting that the same term is used in English, several Slavic and Chinese for both human and a celestial object. Chinese hieroglyph used can be split into (hu-)man and root/source, so body is a source/essence of man

[Art, Stay home, stay safe.]

Oleksandr wrote: "I thought about word 'body'. It is interesting that the same term is used in English, several Slavic and Chinese for both human and a celestial object. Chinese hieroglyph used can be split into (hu..."

Following up with another funny kanji from the same family, man [人] leaning against a tree [木] means "to rest" [休]. Just random information, the symbols are similar and that's about it.

[Oleksandr, a.k.a. Acorn]

Yep, and source is tree's root - I've studied a bit of deductive kanji :) so I don't know how they sound but I sometimes can guess what a kanji means