I was reading a text on Du Chinese yesterday, and the passage ended with 你觉得呢? nǐ jué dé ne? ("What do you think?")
I was struck by the symbol 觉 jué, which I learnt could be used to mean "think", "feel" or "awaken".
I thought it looked like a person wearing a cap that was shining bright. A lightbulb!
Remember that the ideograph for "person" is 人 rén, a minimalistic stick figure with just two legs to represent a human being.
We can see the two legs representing the person in 觉 jué too. The person is wearing a hat, and the hat is radiating something. That looks so much like a lightbulb, it's uncanny.
I guess, in addition to the Four Great Inventions of paper, gunpowder, the compass and the printing press, the Chinese also invented the lightbulb (at the very least, the concept of a light source above a person's head to represent a thought or idea).
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