• 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it does seem to be lost. Wiktionary has a couple theories. Here’s the first one:

      The widely accepted meaning of this character is that the characters for “female” (女) and “child” (子) were put together to form a compound because it was good for a woman to have a child.