[Judgmentality]

> Kanji are fun to learn, because they are constructive to some degree, and actually pictorial to some degree

> actually pictorial to some degree

Only in the same sense that star constellations are pictorial.

https://youtu.be/unKrseRCOKo

I really feel like this is appropriate.

[Izkata]

There are some that are kinda funny when you first see them, for example:

Tree: 木

Forest: 森

[viceroyalbean]

Some make direct sense like the tree/forest, others you have to deep dive into their history for them to make sense (if at all).

For example, the character for people (民) comes from the image of a person being pierced through the eye, which was done to mark slaves in ancient China. Eventually the character and meaning evolved to the way it's used now.

[thematrixturtle]

Person: 人

Rest: 休 (person leaning against a tree)

[hypertele-Xii]

So you can't say "rest" without mentioning a tree? Finnish is funny in similar ways due to its ubiquitous forests. To "hunt" is "metsästää", "metsä" being "forest" the place you went to look for food.

[CRConrad]

You can say you metsästää for mushrooms (and other edibles) in the forest too, though, can't you? So maybe it's actually more of a direct correspondence to "forage". And, is that perhaps derived from / related to "forest"? (Or fodder?)

[thematrixturtle]

Not really, metsästää implies hunting for living things. There's a dedicated verb for mushroom foraging, sienestää, or you can say sienimetsässä, "in the mushroom forest".

[hypertele-Xii]

> can say you metsästää for mushrooms

Someone with a quirky personality might say that :)

[CRConrad]

Who, me? ;-)

Nah, OK, so it seems I've misunderstood that then.

Hei, vasta 27 v tässä pakkosuomen maassa...

[minikomi]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD0NOhrPyEM

I thought you were going to link this guy but both work :)