Kanji #3

As my Kanji book puts it, "many characters containing the elements for 'woman' and 'man' reflect the times in which they were created".



For example, a rice field is 田、and power or strength is 力; put them together and you get 男, the character for man, the power of the rice field.


But more amusing is the more "dated" ones:

A 女　is woman

A woman at home is 安 or "safety",

but 姦　is noisy or immoral （姦しい）.