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Hello am business goose. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ahem. I'm still on my tiptoes, awaiting the meaning of the second character in "business."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ugh.. it's business. Chinese does that sometimes. 業 means line of business, trade or occupation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And I'm still waiting on the second character of penguin. I'm guessing that's Chinese doing its thing again?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The second character, 鵝, means goose. So 企鵝 is literally something like, "standing on tiptoes goose". But no one would look at it that closely, to everyone it's just a penguin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, well that all makes sense then.