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Quote:

桶 (tong3) – bucket
俑 (yong3) 兵马俑 (bing1 ma3 yong3) – terracotta warriors and horses

Can you imagine if the tourist sites got it wrong and wrote:
兵马桶 – warriors and horse buckets.

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smithsgj –

Or military toilet even!

skylee –

Do you know about the novel/movie 秦俑 (Zhang Yimou & Gong Li)?

I remember reading a column written by the writer of the novel 李碧華, saying that at the time
of the making of the movie, she was so nervous that she mistook something totally irrelevant on
the newspaper as comments on the movie. What she had read actually was about 泰佣, not 秦俑.

xoyopai –

Quote:

甲 (jia3) – first
由 (you2) – because, due to
田 (tian2) – field

申 (shen1) 电 (dian4) 曲 (qu3)

开 (kai1) open
井 (jing3) well -n.
——————————————-
乒 (ping1) 乓 (pang1) 乒乓 table tennis

geek_frappa –

Quote:

兵马桶 – warriors and horse buckets.

The most famous attraction in Xi’an is the military toilets?

林彪 –

Quote:

Originally Posted by skylee

Quote:

Originally Posted by 林彪

Also 幸 (xing4) and 幸 (nie4).

I have reservation about the latter pronunciation. What is the source please?

中文字譜, page 150

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg…id=1079039018/

Also:
http://www.zhongwen.com/s/v216.htm

ananda –

In traditional chinese, there’s no so much confusion.

39degN –

how about this one?
籍(ji2) —> 藉(ji2)
箱(xiang1)—>葙(xiang1)
冒(mao4)—>昌(chang1)

39degN –

Quote:

Originally Posted by skylee

Do you know about the novel/movie 秦俑 (Zhang Yimou & Gong Li)?

I remember reading a column written by the writer of the novel 李碧華, saying that at the time
of the making of the movie, she was so nervous that she mistook something totally irrelevant on
the newspaper as comments on the movie. What she had read actually was about 泰佣, not 秦俑.

奏(zou4)——>秦(qin2)

skylee –

These are also easily confused –

荀 (xun2) vs 筍 (sun3)
苗 (miao2) vs 笛 (di2)

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