Monday, April 21, 2003

wohngsikneuih


So, you may be wondering what the name wohngsikneuih means. (Unless you can read pinyin and then you already know.) 
First of all, what is pinyin? ~ It's the phonetic spelling of Chinese. If you know anything about the Chinese language, you may know that it doesn't have an alphabet like English and many other languages. They use a collection of characters. For instance, there is a character for son and a character for daughter. One each. There are about 48,000 characters and when you start putting them together, they form terms. When you put the character of daughter followed by son together, it forms the character for the word "good".  +  =   (That came about because if you have a son and a daughter, that's good.) 

Yeah, anywho, back to the point.... By now you know that my name is Chinese. But still wondering what it says? 
Neuih is the female character, and in this case, "girl".
Wohngsik is "yellow". Hence, my name means YELLOWGIRL!


(originally posted to my geocities website - actual date unknown) 

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