Reading 誤's etymology spurred me to read 吳's etymology. Shouting doesn't require you to tilt your head, so why was 夨 used? Why not just use 人?
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 口 (“mouth”) + 夨 (“man with tilted head”) – to speak loudly.
Definitions
- † to speak loudly; to shout
- † big
- (historical) (~國) one of the Warring States
- (historical) (~國) Eastern Wu, one of the Three Kingdoms
- the territory those states held, around the Yangtze delta
Wu; the Chinese dialects of that territory, including Suzhounese and Shanghainese
⇒ 吳語
A surname.
吳作棟 / 吴作栋 [Min Nan] ― Gô͘ Chok-tòng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― Goh Chok Tong (Singapore's second Prime Minister; currently Emeritus Senior Minister)