How do you write person in Chinese ?

No doubt the Chinese calligraphy is a work of art. I was with Leigh, as usual. And we decided the next fun thing to do, would be to start learning Chinese. So here goes, he showed me how to write his name in Chinese. The next sentence he wrote was, I am a Chinese person. The word person was depicted by an inverted Y, written in a cursive hand. That made me very curious.

I: If Y is a person, how do you write girl and boy.

L: Well, that is simple.

He wrote the inverted Y, and then drew out a slanting stick from the intersection point on the letter. We both flushed pink and laughed till we literally rolled off our chairs. So much for expressiveness in calligraphy. We never got around to learning how to write the other sex in Chinese.