This is kinda delicate but I think I have read somewhere that this kanji in fact also somehow connected with depiction of male genitalia. Is this has any base in it?
Never heard that before. My understanding is that the original sign was supposed to represent the chambers of the heart.
There are some claims that the Chinese character, 心 “Xīn” represents a phallus, especially when you consider its inclusion when used to construct other sexually related chinese characters.
I mean if you look at the seal script form for example it might look kind of like it, but if you go further back to the oracle bone script it looks a lot more like a heart. It’s probably just an anatomical heart, like the other comment mentions.
It definitely looks like a benis if you look at wikitionary。 I suspect the idea that it’s a heart is some serious cope and retconning. But I don’t have proof of this.
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Never heard that before. My understanding is that the original sign was supposed to represent the chambers of the heart.
There are some claims that the Chinese character, 心 “Xīn” represents a phallus, especially when you consider its inclusion when used to construct other sexually related chinese characters.
[https://originofalphabet.com/chinese-word-for-heart-comes-from-a-penis/](https://originofalphabet.com/chinese-word-for-heart-comes-from-a-penis/)
I mean if you look at the seal script form for example it might look kind of like it, but if you go further back to the oracle bone script it looks a lot more like a heart. It’s probably just an anatomical heart, like the other comment mentions.
[Wiktionary for reference] (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BF%83#Glyph_origin)
It definitely looks like a benis if you look at wikitionary。 I suspect the idea that it’s a heart is some serious cope and retconning. But I don’t have proof of this.