Not a typo
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Photograph of a scrumptious birthday cake presented to me on March 25, 2023:
Made in a New York Chinese pastry shop and presented to me by a student with the given name Zihan.
Selected readings
- "Victor Mair's birthday book" (3/29/13)
- "'Happy Birthday' melody formed from tones" (11/5/22)
- "Recognizing half of a character and half of a word" (5/2/21) — detailed discussion of the phonological, lexicographical, morphological, graphical, and other reasons why the character 菡 is customarily mispronounced as hán rather than hàn
jin defang said,
April 7, 2025 @ 8:18 am
making me hungry long before lunchtime. Was it a carrot cake? Orthography far less important than taste!
Victor Mair said,
April 7, 2025 @ 8:22 am
Yes, a carrot cake.
Nothing beats a premium carrot cake.
Robert Coren said,
April 7, 2025 @ 9:29 am
I can't read that initial letter as a Z. Looks like a K to me.
(It also took me a moment to decide that the second line didn't really say "Pairthday".)
Terry K. said,
April 7, 2025 @ 12:40 pm
Looks like a V as Victor. Though why it says Vihan I don't understand.