That little top part (冎) is the how it was originally drawn. It's supposed to look like a bone. It's more pronounced in the earlier drawings.
The bottom part (which is the kanji for moon and month) as a radical often means something like "flesh", and is present in the kanji for body parts.
So I don't think the whole thing was intended to be the pictograph of a skellington, or at least can't say for sure.
I'm no expert, but it was described to me years ago by native Chinese speakers that many of the characters are written like that 🤩 "Man", "woman", "cart", "gate/door", etc. Pictograph origins🖖🏼.
What's bone daddy?
měng is a Chinese character for frog or toad
another one i'm a bit blown away by but might not be totally accurate
Guo, for dog, is like a dog lieing down, 犭, the character for mouth, 口 and the character meaning 'wrap' 勹, like your arms wrapped around your mouth talking to a dog, who obviously understands you
I also really like
kàn meaning 'to look', which is the character for hand 手 above the character for eye 目 🫡
I've been practaticing a lot this year and I'm finally starting to get some of this to click
A lot of characters in Asian languages look like the thing the symbol represents. Can't remember which language it was, but it has characters for "house," "home," and "family" that all look like slight variations to a simple drawing of a house.
New Binding of Isaac familiar just dropped.
Odd that the 'head' is mirrored. The real kanji is 骨。agree it looks like a lil skeleton guy though.
Reminds me of the early vaporwave artist called 骨架的
Almost White Wolf Hermetic Forces
Creative ngl.
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