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About the "工" in his display name...
I assume it means basically the same thing in Chinese.
That's pretty cool the word (symbol? character?) for construction looks like an I beam.
Pictographs can be fun like that. Like the character for "fire" 火 looks kinda like a camp fire. You got your little pyramid of wood and two little "flames" coming off it.
it originally depicted some variant of this but yeah the I-beam definitely helped cement* the continued use of this character
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yup: tool > technique > work > industry, and branching off into “construction” from somewhere in there
共产党 -> 工产党 😱