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Topic | In Chinese script, Korea writes 'beautiful nation' for the USA, but Japan |
bob742omb 05/29/18 3:08:42 AM #15: | (migu) has little to do with the chinese thinking "oh well america is just beautiful so lets call it that" but rather , in this case, is an abbreviation for the chinese word for america, (Ymilji), which phonetically sounds like "america". it's like the chinese word for germany, which is (dgu), literally translating to "moral country." the chinese didn't have some innate reason to believe that germany is moral, but rather that , in this case, is short for the chinese word for "Deutsch", (dyzh), which is phonetic. hth (hope this helps) --- bob the buster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFNtqC0ETqo ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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