Wednesday, May 19, 2010

What's the Chinese word for "flood"?

I don' t know, but I bet it's in there somewhere. . Actually, see that Chinese character second from the bottom in the right-hand column? It's also in the left-hand column (just above the dot), and also in the top horizontal row across the bottom (third from the left). That's "shui" (pronounced "shway"), and is the (Mandarin) Chinese word for water. So I'm betting one of those is in a combination meaning flood.

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