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Re: Chinese pun?

Philip Newton ([email protected])

• From: Philip Newton <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Chinese pun?
• Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 14:02:30 +0100
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:49:07 -0500, "Scott Willis"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> What, if anything, does "chong" mean in Chinese?

Several things, depending on which word pronounced "chong" you mean...

> Does it mean "heavy", "to be heavy", etc.?

That's one meaning - http://zhongwen.com/d/173/d171.htm (zhòng or zhong4
in Pinyin, chong4 in Wade-Giles) is glossed as "heavy" or "serious".

> Sometimes, in translating Japanese, it is helpful to see the kanji.
> (I don't know the Chinese word.)

hànzì (han4zi4)

Philip

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