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[-] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 3 points 1 week ago
[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On this occasion the translation on the bottle is accurate. 鞭 (biān) is also used for certain animal penises (maybe ungulates) when they're used as food or medicine, and 神 (shén) works as an adjective meaning miraculous or magical.

[-] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago

Fascinating! I knew the first and last character from japanese, but I don't speak any flavour of 'chinese' (yet). I found it really interesting, how this combination of characters translated as "magic penis". When I learned about 'kanji' in japanese I inmediately fell in love with them and since then I've been passively trying to learn some mandarin.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Have you tried Outlier Dictionary? It integrates with the Kanji Study app, if you aren't already using both there's really nothing better in my opinion. I did exactly what you did, but ultimately realised I'd prefer to study Mandarin directly.

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