
私 - Watashi
In old Japan, a farmer claimed 'Watashi' by keeping wheat fields for his private use, apart from the communal land. This personal claim to grain later echoed in language as 'watashi,' meaning 'I'—the self held apart, just like private crops from shared fields.
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