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🔣 The Left Vector and Top Row:
These five characters are repeated on both sides (input vector and row vector):
Character Meaning Pinyin
金 Metal jīn
木 Wood mù
水 Water shuǐ
火 Fire huǒ
土 Earth tǔ
These are the Five Elements (五行 wǔxíng) from Chinese philosophy.
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🧮 The Resulting Matrix (5×5):
Each of these is a real Chinese character (not a joke), and many are combinations of radicals that correspond to the five elements. Here's a cell-by-cell breakdown:
鉛 (qiān) – lead 鉀 (jiǎ) – potassium 涂 (tú) – smear, apply 鉚 (mǎo) – rivet 鉆 (zuān) – drill
鋅 (xīn) – zinc 林 (lín) – forest 沐 (mù) – to bathe 炆 (wěn) – simmered 杜 (dù) – block, surname
滔 (tāo) – overflowing waves 沐 (mù) – bathe again 淋 (lín) – drench 淡 (dàn) – light, mild 汰 (tài) – eliminate
鉚 (mǎo) – rivet 炆 (wěn) – simmer 淡 (dàn) – mild 炎 (yán) – flame 灶 (zào) – stove
鉆 (zuān) – drill 杜 (dù) – surname 汰 (tài) – wash/eliminate 灶 (zào) – stove 壤 (rǎng) – soil, earth
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🔍 Observations:
The left column has mostly metal radical (金) characters — like 鉛, 鉀, 鉚, 鉆.
The second row has 木 and 水-related characters — 林 (forest), 沐 (bathe).
The third row is water-heavy — 淋, 滔, 淡, 沐.
The fourth row brings in fire radicals — 炆, 炎, 灶.
The last row contains earth/soil elements — 壤, 土, etc.
In essence, it's as if each resulting character is a blend of the radicals from the row and column — like how linear algebra multiplies row × column to get each cell.
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🤯 Why it works:
The joke is that Chinese characters are visually and semantically compositional, and radicals behave almost like basis vectors in a character-space.