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douche
9y ago
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Oy, yep, I need to read better...
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mikeash
9y ago
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Seems like you're not alone, since the Wikipedia article starts off with a disambiguation for that.
zhemao
9y ago
It wouldn't be hard to find another set of Chinese words with identical pinyin but completely different meaning, though. It's a very homophone-heavy language.
For instance, the words for "buy" and "sell" differ only in tone.
mikeash
9y ago
For sure, but these particular confused terms have (slightly) different pinyin.
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