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Hello,
I was trying to dissecate the Kanjis used to write the seasons names for an art project and I just would like to change the radical 夂 for 夕…. is it too barbaric?
冬 would mean “long freezing nights” as the *long stroke in the top radical would imply *long nights (plural) and the two little strokes would be the ice radical.
夏 would mean that our eyes are open in the night cuz there is still light, as onself can stay awake and not sleep in the nigh…
(or mayble a hundred nights to enjoy? I say that because we can add a branch to the tree in 秋 so why not to anothe stroke to 百? … sorry, maybe too greedy)
Anyway, is it too sacrilegious?? It is really just for an art production, it has nothing to do with language teaching/learning.
I posted this messages in others japanese related subreddit as well.
I’m writing a book and I wanted to incorperate a bit of japanese here and there just because the population of the city I have speaks a lot of different languages.
Long story short, the main character wanted to say thank you very much to an older japanese man who was working at the grocery store, but could tell he could speak the language. I wanted to make sure that “arigatou gozaimasu” was appropriate and polite to the old man. The main character is a young woman.
Sorry if this seems stupid, or that I’m overcomplicating it