北京猿人

北京猿人
Běijīngyuánrén

Peking ape-man

2 meanings
MEANING2 meanings

MEANING

  1. noun

    Peking ape-man

    • Peking Man was an ancestor of humanity.

  2. Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4] in 1921

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解字

CHARACTER ANALYSIS
  • (person turning back; figure of person from behind)ASSOCIATIVE

Two people standing back-to-back represent North, the direction ancients faced away from.

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