Date: July 28th, 2003
Cate: Chinese Word of the Day
Tags:

– Gang3 – Harbor

香港 – Xiang1 Gang3 – Fragrant Harbor — Hong Kong
(and strangely, Athlete’s Foot is 香港腳 – Xiang Gang3 Jiao3 – Hong Kong Foot)

香腸 – Xiang Chang2 – Fragrant Intestine — Sausage

香蕉 – Xiang1 Jiao1 – Banana

香菜 – Xiang1 Cai4 – Fragrant Vegetable — Parsley

香草 – Xiang1 Cao3 – Fragrant Grass — Herb

香水 – Xiang1 Shui3 – Fragrant Water — Perfume

They all sound nice, right? Now get a load of this:

香肉 – Xiang1 Rou4 – Fragrant Meat — DOG MEAT

2 Comments

  1. JennyJenny  
    July 28th, 2003
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  2. Fragrant grass is vanilla.

    1F

  3. stevesteve  
    July 28th, 2003
    REPLY))

  4. Huh. Zhongwen.com confirms that, but my dictionary says it just means herbs in general. Probably you and Zhongwen are right.

    2F

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