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Interesting, I wasn't aware of this meaning - just the geographical region and the post-Imperial Guangxi Clique warlord organizations[1] [1] https://en.wikiped
by douche 10y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware of this meaning - just the geographical region and the post-Imperial Guangxi Clique warlord organizations[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Clique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Clique
- kelnos 10y agoGuanxi (關係) and Guangxi (廣西) are not the same thing (nor are they related).
- jonathankoren 10y agoMr. Burns: I wonder if this Homer Nixon [(meaning Homer Simpson)] is any relation [to President Richard Nixon]? Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently. Mr. Burns: Bah! Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.
- yen223 10y agoGuangxi and Guanxi are two completely unrelated things.
- douche 10y agoOy, yep, I need to read better...
- mikeash 10y agoSeems like you're not alone, since the Wikipedia article starts off with a disambiguation for that.
- zhemao 10y agoIt wouldn't be hard to find another set of Chinese words with identical pinyin but completely different meaning, though. It's a very homophone-heavy language. For instance, the words for "buy" and "sell" differ only in tone.
- mikeash 10y agoFor sure, but these particular confused terms have (slightly) different pinyin.
- ihsw 10y agoFor a more modern (and far more interesting) clique of Chinese politicians, there are the Tsinghua Clique and Tuanpai. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_clique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_clique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuanpai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuanpai There is something to be said for unbridled single-minded ambition.