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面

miàn

related components & characters

[object Object]

classical translation

face, surface

a seed with pod, an encircled flower
ecological image

a seed with pod, an encircled flower

The Oracle characters look like the image of 見, a seed with roots, with the addition of an area encircled around the seed, which I think is a seed pod.. The seal character is altogether different, and shows a flower (see 夏 for basis) with a circle around it. The face was analogically like the "flower" of a plant, and this is the reason why correspondences for the face, or complexion, include summer and fire.

nuanced meaning

ancient characters
Oracle script
alternate images from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology:
Oracle script

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Universal Qi is a project by Dr. Evren “Ev” Juniper, Doctor of East Asian Medicine (DAcCHM, LAc). Ev’s work explores the relationship between embodied clinical experience and the scholarly study of early Chinese language and classical medical texts.

By pairing lived practice with careful study of the roots of the medicine, she seeks to clarify concepts that have often been mistranslated or misunderstood in modern interpretations. Her doctoral thesis, Embodied Universe, can be found on Academia.edu.

​Ev practices clinically at ECHO Acupuncture, in Gladstone, Oregon.

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