DALLASCAO.COM » The Chinese Language http://dallascao.com/en Site of Dallas Cao, English to Chinese translator Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:52:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chinese characters as decorations http://dallascao.com/en/chinese-characters/ http://dallascao.com/en/chinese-characters/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:57:50 +0000 Dallas http://dallascao.com/en/?p=179 In the movie Street Fighter: The Legend of Chunli, Chunli’s mother is dying in her bed and the TV is on. A news anchor’s voice can be heard in the background announcing bad news of gang crimes in English. Yet as the setting is in Hong Kong, a TV screen (a huge LCD screen) is shown with Chinese characters. These Chinese characters do not make sense at all when they are put together:
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Sometimes we laugh at the English written on Chinese products which serves as decorations only. Now I noticed that Chinese is often used that way too in movies and tattoos. In this picture, the second character “里” is upside down.

Chinese Tattoos

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