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何 · Zhang Zhi

Hé (何, pinyin hé) is today the interrogative ‘what? how?’ — but its bone-script root is a person (人) carrying a load on a pole (可 ‘to carry’), meaning ‘to bear.’ 《说文》reads ‘何,儋也’ (to shoulder a burden); the sense was later borrowed for the $9.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart