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Chinese and other Characters
As I live in China at the moment, I had the idea of a new map type: Chinese Calligraphy. OK, my talent to calligraphy is somewhat limited, so I hope that people who can read chinese recognize the letters :-) The name of each map is the chinese 'pin yin' spelling with tones. After that follows the english translation. I made a lot of country names as character maps. If you feel I missed some country, email me :-) How do chinese
generate a countries name? They try to find some word which pronounces
somewhat similar (in that countries native language) and with a flattery
meaning. Most country names are then followed by the word for country. If
that does not work, then they try to imitate the pronounciation completly. |
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Alpha and Omega:Just the Greek letters. |
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China: Zhong1 Guo2. Central Empire. 中国 |
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Germany: De2 Guo2 (Deutschland). De2 means morality/virtue/kindness 德国 |
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USA: Mei3 guo2 (America). Mei3 means beautiful. 美国 |
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Great Britain: Ying1 Guo2 (England). Ying1 means hero. 英国 |
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France: Fa3 Guo2 (France). Fa3 means law/method/legal. 法国 |
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Singapore: Xin1 Jia1 Po1. 新加坡 |
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Netherlands: He2 Lan2 (Holland). (meaning: Lotus and orchid) 荷兰 |
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Canada: Jia1 Na3 Da4. 加拿大 |
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Australia: Ao4 Da4 Li4 Ya4 澳大利扎 |
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Japan: Ri4 Ben3 (meaning: origin of the sun, ri is the sun) 日本 |
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Fight Courageously: Fen4 Zhang4 奋战 |
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Castle: Cheng2 Bao3 城堡 |
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Stronghold: Yao4 Sai1 要塞 |
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Slay: Sha1 Shi3 杀死 |
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Double edged sword: Bao3 Jian4 宝剑 |
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Slay © Sean O'Connor 1994 - 2003 |
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Stefanie Wong und Michael Zehnpfennig.
Copyright © 2002-2006. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
