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It 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.
by zhemao 10y ago
It 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.