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This may be an Ateji, using Chinese characters phonetically to represent loan words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateji
by rendaw 3y ago
This may be an Ateji, using Chinese characters phonetically to represent loan words: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateji
- routerl 3y agoThey're the same characters in Chinese, and pronounced differently, so I doubt your hypothesis in this case.