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Strange etymology

Posted on March 21, 2006 by Jason Li

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A lesson in etymology about that strange character (lesson in Chinese).

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Jason Li is an independent designer, artist and educator. Once upon a time, he studied engineering and ran a news site about fan translations of video games.

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