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Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils. People place pairs of shisa on their rooftops or flanking the gates to their houses, with the left shisa traditionally having a closed mouth, the right one an open mouth. [1] The open mouth shisa traditionally wards off evil spirits, and the closed mouth shisa keeps good spirits in.
The mouth closed shisa is thus saying "nn" or "mm" as the end of the same alphabet. There is little evidence supporting this theory, but the unique similarities are striking. It is possible that the Japanese and other parts of Asia have deeper roots to the Western world than archeological records indicate.
The shīsā (シーサー), the stone animals that in Okinawa guard the gates or the roofs of houses, are close relatives of the shishi and the komainu, objects whose origin, function and symbolic meaning they share. [21] Their name itself is centuries old regional variant of shishi-san (獅子さん, lit. ' Mr. Lion '). [5]
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A painting of a Bengali Muslim woman in muslin, relaxing while smoking hookah, by Francesco Renaldi A Rajasthani man smoking through a hookah, Rajasthan, India.. A hookah (Bengali: হুক্কা, Hindi: हुक़्क़ा, Urdu: حُقّہ), IPA: ; also see other names), [1] [2] [3] shisha, [3] or waterpipe [3] is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and ...
open mouth: a 鴉 au 拗 aŋ 江 aʔ 壓 ɒ 奥 ɒŋ 王 ɒʔ 屋 o 科 ɔu 烏 ɔŋ 温 ɔʔ 熨 e 裔 ai 愛 ɛŋ 煙 ɛʔ 黑 ø 改 œŋ 熊 œʔ 郁 ŋ 伓 even teeth: i 衣 iu 油 iŋ 引 iʔ 益 ia 夜 iau 要 iaŋ 鹽 iaʔ 葉 closed mouth: u 夫 ui 位 uŋ 廣 ua 画 uai 歪 uaŋ 碗 uaʔ 活 round mouth: y 余 yŋ 恩 yʔ 役 yɒ 安 ...
The Zhangzhou dialects are classified as Hokkien, a group of Southern Min varieties. [6] In Fujian, the Zhangzhou dialects form the southern subgroup (南片) of Southern Min. [7] The dialect of urban Zhangzhou is one of the oldest dialects of Southern Min, and along with the urban Quanzhou dialect, it forms the basis for all modern varieties. [8]
It is especially common on Japanese railways, where it is referred to as shisa kanko (指差喚呼), shisa kakunin kanko (指差確認喚呼) or yubisashi koshō (指差呼称); and in Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese railways, where it is called 指差呼唤; 指差確認 (zhǐchā hūhuàn). Gesturing at and verbalizing these indicators helps ...