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This is a fascinating topic to me. Did you ever wonder the meaning of country names in Chinese? Usually, names of foreign countries in Chinese are phonetic, and sometimes the characters that Chinese picked are very interesting for countries’ names in Chinese. Continue reading “Country names in Chinese”
Month: May 2014
666 The Number Of The Beast Or Very Lucky
When you see the number 666, do you think it is very lucky or very unlucky? Why? If you come from a Western country, or a country greatly influenced by Christianity, then you might think that 666 is very unlucky because from the Book of Revelation in the Bible, 666 is the number of the beast (the Antichrist), and hence extremely unlucky or even an evil number. But in China, 666 is very lucky. Continue reading “666 The Number Of The Beast Or Very Lucky”