Chinese for Indiana

Posted at January 22, 2009

This is a screen shot of a free chinese dictionary I got for my ipod. This picture shows the chinese translation for Indiana.  If you see the pinyin below the characters, you can probably read it to realize it sounds almost the same Indiana does.  The 4 characters mean:

  1. Stamp / Seal
  2. Place
  3. Peace
  4. There / That

Clearly no meaning is connected.  I’m starting to see more and more characters “borrowed” for their sound, it’s nice because you don’t have to learn more characters and sometimes you can sound out the meaning.  After 7 months of studying Chinese characters, they are FINALLY starting to make some sense.

This is my also first blog post using wordpress.  :)

Chinese Tranlator Dictionary Ipod Touch

China, Learning Chinese, Taiwan

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