Call me crazy, but...how is this primitive different to "mouth"?

aphasiac Wrote:Call me crazy, but...how is this primitive different to "mouth"?

It isn't. It's just like the "rock" primitive in 拓 and 砕. It's just different because of where it's written, not how.

Indeed so, the only difference is that nothing ever goes inside the mouth, but things always go inside the pent-in primitive. Having two different primitives then tells you where to put the other primitive in your story.

Well anything with a mouth, i.e a relatively small square has connotations of opening, inputs, outputs, vomitting, spitting, making sound, blowing where 'pent-in' has connotations of 'closing in' for most characters, for others without those sorts of meanings then its just there because its there.

Ah I get it - thanks people!

liosama Wrote:Well anything with a mouth, i.e a relatively small square has connotations of opening, inputs, outputs, vomitting, spitting, making sound, blowing where 'pent-in' has connotations of 'closing in' for most characters, for others without those sorts of meanings then its just there because its there.

Problem with that is, there are tons of stories where there *are* things in the mouth. Two obvious Heisig ones are:

日 (tongue waggling in mouth)
四 (spare set of human legs in a mouth)