- ⺊(dot above; high position)
- 一(standard baseline; norm)
A dot mark sitting above a horizontal line represents the meaning 'above'.
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
He has elderly parents above and young children below, so his life pressure is very great.
fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
He has elderly parents above and young children below, making life very difficult.
sandwich generation
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
He has elderly parents above and young children below, so his life pressure is very great.
fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
He has elderly parents above and young children below, making life very difficult.
sandwich generation
A dot mark sitting above a horizontal line represents the meaning 'above'.
A hand holding a piece of meat — that is 'to have'.
An old person with a hunched back curved like a spoon is the image of this character.
A vertical stroke pointing downward across a boundary line marks 'below'.
Three tiny strokes represent fine grains of sand, conveying the meaning of "small" or "tiny."
A dot mark sitting above a horizontal line represents the meaning 'above'.
A hand holding a piece of meat — that is 'to have'.
An old person with a hunched back curved like a spoon is the image of this character.
A vertical stroke pointing downward across a boundary line marks 'below'.
Three tiny strokes represent fine grains of sand, conveying the meaning of "small" or "tiny."
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
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