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I'm not aware of any Chinese websites that don't just use Pinyin for their domain name. Some random person is squatting on http://百度.中国/ http://xn--wxtr44c.xn--
by yorwba 7y ago
I'm not aware of any Chinese websites that don't just use Pinyin for their domain name. Some random person is squatting on http://百度.中国/ http://xn--wxtr44c.xn--fiqs8s/ (百度.中国), but Baidu doesn't seem to care. They use http://www.baidu.com/ http://www.baidu.com/ as their primary address.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> I'm not aware of any Chinese websites that don't just use Pinyin for their domain name. There are tons. One prominent email provider is a three-digit number. There's a job board at 51job.com. (What's 51job? Read in Mandarin, that would be "wǔ yāo job" [five one "job" (the English word)]. This is felt to sound similar to "wǒ yào job" 我要job [I want a job].)
- tluyben2 7y agoWhy is 1 = yāo? It is yi isn’t it?
- thaumasiotes 7y ago一 yi (tone varies based on phonological context) is the ordinary word for 1. 幺 yāo is a common word for 1 when vocalizing a stream of digits. (Such as a phone number / credit card number / account number / etc.) I am told that this originated as a way to easily distinguish 1 from 7 (七 qī) when communicating over a low-quality connection. In the presence of static, yi and qi could sound similar. CC-CEDICT has a good gloss ( https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=0&wdqb=%E5%B9%BA https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=... ): > one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)
- tluyben2 7y agoThanks!
- yorwba 7y agoI should've written "... that don't just use ASCII characters instead of Hanzi." Of course domains using numbers or English words aren't Pinyin, but the point is that they don't require Punycode to represent.