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My Chinese friend told me MiMo doesn’t have a meaning in Chinese (of course Mi 米 = rice). Anybody have a clue for what it stands for?

• column 1y ago
  (Xiao)mi mo(del) ?
  • johanyc 1y ago
    Yeah i think so 小(xiao)_米(mi)模(mo)_型(xing)
• echelon_musk 1y ago
  Rice Model?
  • est 1y ago
    Millet Model
    • esafak 1y ago
      Sorghum next!
• gandalfgreybeer 1y ago
  A lot of Xiaomi products have the prefix Mi. My initial guess is Mo is for model. Also related reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi#Name_etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi#Name_etymology
• nicman23 1y ago
  probably μίμος (mime)
• SchemaLoad 1y ago
  Isn't that basically standard for names? What does Google mean? Even when the words in a name do have some meaning, they often don't apply. The meaning of the word brother doesn't really mean anything in the company Brother.
  • t-3 1y ago
    It's standard for English names (although google is a real word - the number represented by a one followed by 100 zeroes), but not so much for Chinese - at least personal names seem to usually have a real meaning rather than just sounding nice, although I'm not sure about how much that extends to product names.
  • pests 1y ago
    Why did you choose Google when its classic lore they named it after a real word "googol" and the current spelling is just a typo from the first investor check.
    • SchemaLoad 1y ago
      It still doesn't really mean anything. Knowing the lore behind the name doesn't let you understand it any more than just taking it as a random name.
      • pests 1y ago
        It's still based on a real word though.