meaning" (同名異實 tóngmíng yìshí — homonyms); "same meaning, different word" (同實異名 tóngshí yìmíng); and "Taiwan terms" (臺灣用語 Táiwān yòngyǔ) and "mainland terms"...

for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages. It is commonly used in Taiwan. It consists of 37 characters and five tone marks, which together can transcribe...

in Chinese. Even though the sauce itself is made by stir-frying, this homonym does not carry over into the Classical Chinese term. The topping of the...

umbrellas were usually given as dowry, due to the "paper" (纸) and "child" (子) homonym in the language (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́), symbolizing a blessing for the woman...

The following faux pas are derived from homonyms in Mandarin and Cantonese. While originating in Greater China, they may also apply to Chinese-speaking...

originally meant 'the first horse day of the fifth month'. However, go is a homonym for five (五) in Japanese, so during the Nara period the meaning shifted...

times has caused controversy in the United States due to it including the homonym "chink", which can be interpreted as an ethnic slur to refer to someone...

longevity, in the same manner as the bat symbolizes good fortune due to its homonymic association with the Chinese character for good luck (福). A fungus, that...

A Sun (Chinese: 陽光普照) is a 2019 Taiwanese drama film directed and co-written by Chung Mong-hong. The film stars Chen Yi-wen, Samantha Ko, Wu Chien-ho...

while is also the inverted homonym of 摺紙 (zher-zhi, origami), and combined with his surname 王 (Wang, king), it's homonym of "origami king". Origami Fighter...

persisted until as late as 1957, but it was ultimately made invalid as a later homonym at the species level. The current species name comes from Walter T. Swingle...

native to Korea, Japan (including the Ryukyu Islands) and China (Hainan and Taiwan). Kew world Checklist of Selected Plant Families Flora of China v 25 p 309...

Enterprise Co., Ltd (Chinese: 聖謙企業股份有限公司)), also known as Sachen, was a Taiwanese company that developed several original games for the Nintendo Entertainment...

country today. When Rotten sings "I use the enemy", it's a deliberate homonym for "I use the NME", or New Musical Express, the British weekly music newspaper...

for the extant species of fruit fly by suppression of its unused senior homonym (replaced by †Drosophila statzi (Statz, 1940) Ashburner and Bachli, 2004)...

Chinese character of their family name from "岳" (lit. mountain peak) into a homonym "樂" (lit. music). Eiga Natalie Editorial Department (2024-04-25)....

brevivaginatus Alderw. - Sumatra Pothos chinensis (Raf.) Merr. - China, Tibet, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Indochina, Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan Pothos...

loanwords are used and necessary to distinguish between otherwise ambiguous homonyms. Vietnam used to write in chữ Hán (Chinese characters) in Classical Chinese...

Hubbs and Iwamoto 1977 (Actinopterygii: Gadiformes: Macrouridae), a junior homonym of Mesobius Chamberlin 1951 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae). Ichthyological...

heads. It also received criticism in that had very little relevance to the homonym biblical story. Porter is a puzzle video game similar to Thinking Rabbit's...

1858 †Fagus aspera (Berry) Brown, 1944 †Fagus aspera Chelebaeva, 2005 (jr homonym) †Fagus atlantica Unger, 1847 †Fagus attenuata Göppert, 1855 †Fagus aurelianii...

question of humanity!" Throughout the course of the song, Dao uses several homonyms, metaphors, and visual puns with Chinese characters, such as using the...

to eat nian gao during this time of the year because nian gao (年糕) is a homonym for "higher year" or "grow every year" (年高), which means "a more prosperous...

As confirmed on the character's official Facebook page, her name is a homonym for one of the readings for the Japanese word for 'ten': too (とお). Her...

because the previous genus name, Notesia Yamanaka, 1992, was a junior homonym of Notesia Casey, 1922, a genus of weevils. Notesia Yamanaka, 1992, however...

: 133  In Chinese language, clouds are called yun (云; 雲; yún) which is a homonym for the Chinese character yun "good fortune" (运; 運; yùn).: 579  In Chinese...

and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for "death" in their languages. In Slavic mythology, the god Svetovid has...

all different names). In certain dialects, different surnames could be homonyms so it is common for family names to appear ambiguous when transliterated...

Emperor's birthday. "Sugarcane" (Chinese: 甘蔗; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-chià) is a near homonym to "thank you" (Chinese: 感謝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám-siā) in the Hokkien dialect...

number of illegitimate scientific names, many of them quite ambiguous homonyms: Solanum balbisii Dunal Solanum bipinnatifidum Larrañaga Solanum brancaefolium...