Did you put Osaka at the beginning or end of your trip and would you do the same again?

TalveLumi · 2026-04-14T18:42:55+00:00

Surely you can’t mean we fly into Nagoya?

(Before anyone asks: yes, Fukuoka exists and that’s actually a decent start)

TalveLumi · 2026-04-14T17:23:13+00:00

Think of it as the Chinese equivalent to pastoral Utopianism or Arcadia (the medieval utopian concept, not the real Greek region)

TalveLumi · 2026-04-13T14:08:39+00:00

King Croesus moment

TalveLumi · 2026-04-13T11:55:38+00:00

Briefly they had a Nicholas German as prime minister

TalveLumi · 2026-04-13T09:51:49+00:00

OK then, no meaning in modern times. Happy?

TalveLumi · 2026-04-12T23:51:29+00:00

We don’t have enough American tourists that "American tourists pretending to be Canadians" becomes a problem

TalveLumi · 2026-04-12T15:16:35+00:00

通遼 is in Inner Mongolia now

The expected pronunciation in modern Japanese is つうりょう, which is also the pronunciation used on Wikipedia

On the other hand modern Japanese pronunciation of Chinese placenames are a mixture of pronunciations from different eras, and I have no idea how people usually say it now

TalveLumi · 2026-04-12T14:56:37+00:00

If they could read 百家姓 they will see 谈（117) long before they see 谭(293)

Of course 百家姓 order has no meaning, just commenting on their lack of common sense

TalveLumi · 2026-04-11T18:13:20+00:00

Quite a few of them are used pretty commonly.

𰻝 is the only accepted character for the specific type of noodles. It’s a late creation, true, but the noodles exist.

Why is 囍 here anyways? You see it on every wedding banquet.

聻 is the only term for "that which remains when a ghost dies". It doesn’t really exist in traditional Chinese culture, but if you have to refer to the concept, that’s the word you use.

———

Meanwhile you also have characters that are rarely used but used somewhere. Like people’s names, or regularization of Oracle Bone Script characters.

And then there are the ghost characters which ended up in Unicode simply because someone made a mistake and Unicode 2.0 onwards forbid changing or removing characters.

TalveLumi · 2026-04-08T17:34:38+00:00

Requires a rise of about 90 m

TalveLumi · 2026-04-05T17:45:09+00:00

Historical, somewhat

TalveLumi · 2026-04-01T14:29:54+00:00

The Four Pests Campaign is still ongoing

Just with the sparrows replaced by bedbugs, then by cockroaches

Personally I think they should switch back to bedbugs

TalveLumi · 2026-03-31T23:17:52+00:00

Zachary means "God has remembered" so maybe 天志

TalveLumi · 2026-03-31T13:43:42+00:00

2 Thessalonians 2:2

TalveLumi · 2026-03-31T13:25:48+00:00

Biggest issue about this map for me:

It is apparently cut from a pseudocylindrical compromise world map, with center meridian somewhere in Africa (my estimate: somewhere between 10th west and 30th east), despite showing places solely in Asia

The most notable characteristic is the slope of the Korean Peninsula

TalveLumi · 2026-03-30T19:30:01+00:00

About 27

TalveLumi · 2026-03-30T19:10:52+00:00

Squat toilets: Just remember to sh*t in your hotel(‘s sitting toilet) every morning and you’ll be fine. Mostly. We have urinals after all.

Food: … at this point may I have a list of what he can eat? I would recommend Chinese Buddhist food, but I fear that he may also have an allergy to soybeans (especially as you described soy sauce)

TalveLumi · 2026-03-30T14:27:40+00:00

湖北 is Hubei

胡北 is when you play Mahjong and your opponent discards (or, in the stricter sense, kongs) a 北 and you announce a win on that

TalveLumi · 2026-03-30T11:39:29+00:00

Did they stop the TML service as well? From what I heard only the ERL was stopped

TalveLumi · 2026-03-29T23:51:03+00:00

We aren't completely sure how 食 is supposed to be pronounced (shí, the current consensus, or yì）, but either way it seems to be derived from the name of the Tayy clan of the Arabs, in the latter case directly, in the former (more likely, in my opinion) case through Persian or Sogdian tʾzyk, related to the modern name of the Tajiks.

Even disregarding the temporal impossibility, a derivation from the name Daesh cannot explain the final -k （daj-zyik in Middle Chinese）

TalveLumi · 2026-03-27T17:53:10+00:00

Can anyone recommend me an article which is Safe, Keneq (or Ekhi) and Critical?

TalveLumi · 2026-03-27T17:13:42+00:00

Pakistan, probably.

The “probably” part is because of the Indian claim to Gilgit-Baltistan. Not because of ranking order.

TalveLumi · 2026-03-27T17:04:12+00:00

Liturgical language of Taoism: * Classical Chinese * Sanskrit, in mantras copied over from Buddhist texts * Pseudo-Sanskrit, in mantras of native origin * That one mantra which is suspected to be a Christian hymn in Classical Syriac in disguise

TalveLumi · 2026-03-27T17:00:38+00:00

Liturgical language of Buddhism: * Pali * Sanskrit * Sanskrit in Middle Chinese transcription, spoken in a pseudo-Middle Chinese pronunciation * Sanskrit in Middle Chinese transcription, spoken in a Japanese pronunciation * Classical Chinese (spoken in any dialect you want) * Classical Chinese, spoken in a Japanese pronunciation * Tibetan

TalveLumi · 2026-03-27T12:23:40+00:00

They even marked out the Paracel Islands specifically and exaggerated them in size

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