freten by sowe

[LanDi Liu]

The "pig" character,  $Bl5 (B (shi3), means that, but isn't used commonly,
and it sounds like shit,  $BU} (B (shi3).  Most Chinese people wouldn't
recognize it.  The everyday "pig" character is  $BCv (B (zhu1).

[I'm expecting that the characters won't show, unless somebody "fixed"
something on the server side after our unicode tests, so if I'm right,
my prepared response is: Doug, how come you can write Chinese
characters and I can't?  That's so NOT FAIR!!!]

Randy

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
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>  Compare:
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>  "Pig":  $Bl5 (B
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>  http://www.xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php?cdqchi=%E8%B1%95
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>  "Home"/"family":  $B2H (B
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>  http://www.xuezhongwen.net/chindict/chindict.php?cdqchi=%E5%AE%B6
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Randy Alexander
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