The meaning of sweetheart

Sweetheart means: expressing willingness, which was later a nickname for lovers.

Yes. From "Taiping Tianyu Folk Song Send Your Son to Be a Taiping Army" (this is a children's song): "Send your son to be a Taiping Army to defend the poor; As long as you lose, Shimizu is also a sweetheart. " A nickname for a lover. Xu Dishan's "Three Doctors": "Teacher Huang, smiled and said,' This has just been sent in from outside ... I think it must be from your sweetheart. " "

Word segmentation explanation

1, sweet, a common Chinese character (first-class character), pronounced as tián, was first seen in seal script. The original intention is like the taste of sugar and honey, as opposed to bitterness; The extended meaning includes beauty, happiness and happiness. Shuowen: "Sweet and beautiful. From sweetness, from tongue. Tongue, know its sweetness. " Heng's Southern Fu: "There are a hundred kinds of ups and downs."

2. Xin (pinyin: xρn) is a common Chinese character, which first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The ancient glyph of "heart" is like the heart of a person, bird or beast, and its original meaning is heart. The ancients thought that the heart was the organ of thinking, so they called thoughts and feelings "heart". It also extends from thinking organs to thoughts, thoughts, concepts, feelings, temperament and so on. , but also extended to thinking and planning.

The heart is in the center of the human body, so "heart" has the meaning of center, center and middle. "Heart" is an important signifier, and the words from "heart" are mostly related to thoughts and feelings, such as thinking, hatred and admiration. When the "heart" is radical, the shape will change. The left and right structures of the words "ladle" such as hate, sorrow and bosom are written.