was difficult to observe naming taboo with the name "Huang" (which was a homonym to many common terms—including "yellow" 黃 and "emperor" 皇). During Cao...

in hou 猴 (with a hou 侯 "marquis" phonetic) "macaque; monkey" and yuan 猿 (with yuan 袁 "long robe") "gibbon; monkey". Note that the following discussion...

Known as the "gold cicada on a jade leaf" hairpin, or "jin zhi yu ye" (a homonym for the Chinese idiom "one of noble birth"), a type of Ming dynasty hairpin...

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...

: 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...

Zedong in 1971, was named by Lin Biao's son Lin Liguo as a play on its near-homonym of "armed uprising" (武裝起義; wǔzhuāng qǐyì or 武起義; wǔ qǐyì).[citation needed]...

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...

bicolor (Ferrer & Yvinec, 2004) a tenebrionid beetle Zhou, Z.; Webby, B.D.; Yuan, W. (1995). "Ordovician trilobites from the Yingan Formation of northwestern...

Jiusi (張九四), was one of the leaders of the Red Turban Rebellion in the late Yuan dynasty of China. Zhang Shicheng came from a family of salt shippers, and...

(Campanulaceae) from Korea. Journal of Plant Research 110(1) 77-80. Song, G. and H. De-yuan. (1999). A new species of Chinese Adenophora (Campanulaceae). Novon 9(1)...

which uses Furong flowers and the Chinese character shou《壽》, as it is a homonym for the Chinese characters fushou《福壽》which can literally be translated...

disappear. Thus the six rén indicate the life cycle of phenomena. There is a homonym in the Chinese language which carries the meaning of pregnancy,[citation...

Chinese term fu that refers to a type of poetry or literature: although homonyms in English, the other fu (simplified Chinese: 赋; traditional Chinese: 賦;...

find the process of picking characters from a list being too slow due to homonyms so the Cangjie method is generally preferred. Although thorough training...

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...

SA-013 Dancing Block 1990 5 TC-029 Gaiapolis 1990 An unofficial port of the homonym arcade game. 6 SA-008 The Mahjong World Máquè Shìjiè 1990 1) Contains nudity...

超級女聲; pinyin: Chāojí Nǚshēng; literally: "Super Female Voice", as it is homonym with "Super girl") was a Chinese singing contest for female contestants...

roughly means "Plots in the Palace" and is a play on the phrase (攻心計), a homonym which roughly means "Plots that target and attack the heart". Gong Choi-king...

Magas or Makas, and in Chinese as Muzashan (木栅山). The name Magas is a homonym of the Persian word magas, meaning "fly", and the medieval writers al-Mas'udi...

in the Western Neo-Syriac (Ṭūrōyo) Lexicon: With Special Reference to Homonyms, Related Words and Borrowings with Cultural Signification. Uppsala: Uppsala...

direction," "ahead," "headway". Paronomastically, tao is equated with its homonym 蹈 tao < d'ôg, "to trample," "tread," and from that point of view it is...

'arrow' and the river's name is doubted, and they are likely to be Latin homonyms. In 1758, Carl Linnaeus described the tiger in his work Systema Naturae...

the character guan (Chinese: 冠; pinyin: guān; lit. 'crown/hat/cap') is a homonym another Chinese character pronounced guan (Chinese: 官; pinyin: guān; lit...

Amboinense by Georg Eberhard Rumphius where Rumphius said that coccus was a homonym of coccum and coccus from Greek κόκκος kokkos meaning "grain" or "berry"...

such as peanuts and dates (in Chinese, the word for "date" is a near homonym of "early", while "peanut" is "birth"). This is normally presented on the...

chubanshe. West, Andrew (September 2018). "An introduction to the Tangut Homonyms". Journal of Chinese Writing Systems. 2 (3): 195–207. doi:10.1177/2513850218778825...

newspapers now only using Hanja as abbreviations or disambiguation of homonyms. However, as Korean documents, history, literature and records throughout...

mortars. Nearby was the communication transit station nicknamed "04" (a homonym of 'You die' in Chinese pronunciation) on a hill with a 30°-angle blind...

conventions of Standard English is normally expected. Some of the examples are homonyms or pairs of similarly spelled words that are often confused. The words...

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