Evidence for the Biblical Record

I think you are being a bit harsh here Dr. A. The characters for mouth and erect are a rectangle and a square respectively, and which one is in the compound pictogram is pretty impossible to call just looking at them. As for the 'small table', another site showing the Kanji character for ship clearly show that the top element is not the one for table. In fact if you look at the stroke order diagram on that page, and then the one for the 'mouth' radical and the 'erect' radical it is pretty clear that it is indeed the one for 'mouth' which is composed from 3 separate strokes.I think that the idea this has something to do with Noah's ark is nonsense, but I don't think Peg has what the actual characters themselves are mixed up.TTFN,WK

The little animated gifs confused me by only showing 2 strokes for the 'erect' radical.I may have been misled about the upper one since the site I linked to was Kanji rather than actual traditional chinese. However, searching for 'ship' on the mandarin tools site brings up this stroke order animation which clearly supports your interpretation of the upper sub pictogram.TTFN,WK