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My First Chinese Cognate

Posted in China, Language, Words by Elliott Back on March 13th, 2006.

I learned my first real Chinese cognate today, sanmingzhi, meaning “sandwich.” It’s pronounced san1 ming2 zhi4. How cool is that–borrowed words. Leave me more in the comments–US place names don’t count though.

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