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Linda Maria Tervaniemi
Linda Maria Tervaniemi
5 years ago

This character looks like the bottom part of a face. You can see the mustache as X part and 2 teeth and a laughing mouth under. So it basically looks like a dad laughing at a bad dad joke.

Tony Kinninger
Tony Kinninger
5 years ago

This means father because at the bottom it looks like a face wearing glasses (most dad’s wear glasses) and with a mustache. At the top he has a weird looking crown and only kings wear crowns, symbolizing that the king of the family is the FATHER. 🙂

Ola
Ola
4 years ago

When I look at this character I think of my dad, because the upper part looks like crossed arms (when your dad is standing and looking at you angrily with his arms crossed)

Elzyan Hadji
Elzyan Hadji
3 years ago

The way I remember that this character means dad, is that the top part with the cross looks like a workers hat, while the bottom half is like 2 eyes with a mouth. Another reason is that his face is very symmetrical and straight which is normal for older men. Whereas the character for mama has more flow and movement.

Regan Slattery
Regan Slattery
2 years ago

The character has the two little strokes which make me think of an angry father with eyebrows.

Tsepo
Tsepo
1 year ago

When I see this character, I see two swords crossed on the top of a table with drawers.

Anna
Anna
1 year ago

The top part looks like two swords crossed

Deron Nguyen
Deron Nguyen
9 months ago

I see the top part of the character like a miner; something some fathers do.

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Ryan Kim
Ryan Kim
2 months ago

The way I would end up seeing the character was a pirate flag, as most pirates represented power, I feel as if baba looked like two swords and a mouth at the bottom.

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NYU Shanghai
Diovanna Negeski
Diovanna Negeski
2 months ago

The strokes remind me of two swords, usually related to man that use to fight as a father, which helped me memorize it better.

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NYU Shanghai