has been explained as (1) a “pig” under a “roof,” the Chinese idea, common to the Irish peasant, of home, and also (2) as “several persons” under “a roof,” in the same sense; a “woman” under a “roof” makes the character
“peace”; “words” and “tongue”
naturally suggest “speech”; two hands (
, in the old form
) indicate friendship; “woman” and “birth”