Date: 2022-01-29 01:40 am (UTC)
grayswandir: Shen Wei looking at Zhao Yunlan. (Guardian: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan)
From: [personal profile] grayswandir
Ha, I only know 罗 thanks to 罗浮生

Hah, I figured out what name this must be after looking at it for a few seconds, but hadn't seen it in Chinese characters before. Maybe I'll remember it now. :) I'd seen 羅 as a traditional character before, but only in place names (e.g. Russia, 俄羅斯/俄罗斯).

I wonder if 浪漫 was originally a back-borrowing from Japanese, in which it's actually pronounced rо̄man?

Oh, that would make sense. 浪 seems like an odd phonetic match, coming from Chinese...

I find it a nice happy medium, but I may be biased ;)

That actually sounds nice to me, too. I enjoy how much etymology is packed into the traditional characters, but some of them have so many strokes, it seems very reasonable to want to simplify them. Just, yeah -- maybe not all the way down to 云!
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