{"id":45500,"date":"2019-12-22T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T22:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=45500"},"modified":"2019-12-22T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T23:04:15","slug":"multicultural-pork-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=45500","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural pork buns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emery Snyder spotted this sign in New York City's Chinatown:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/porkbagel1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/porkbagel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/porkbagel2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/~bgzimmer\/porkbagel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">h\u00e9y\u00e8 b\u0101o<br \/>\n\u8377\u53f6\u5305<br \/>\nlotus leaf bun<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">zh\u012bma b\u01d0ng<br \/>\n\u829d\u9ebb\u997c<br \/>\nsesame cake<\/p>\n<p>Well, that's what the Chinese says.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese word for \"pancake\" is b\u00e1o ji\u0101nbing <span lang=\"zh-CN\"><span title=\"\">\u8584\u714e\u997c<\/span><\/span> or b\u00e1o k\u01ceob\u01d0ng \u8584\u70e4\u997c.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese word for \"bagel\"\u00a0<span lang=\"yi\">\u05d1\u05d9\u05d9\u05d2\u05dc<\/span>\u200e is b\u00e8igu\u01d2 \u8c9d\u679c\uff0c p\u00e9igu\u01d2 \u57f9\u679c\uff0c b\u00e8igu\u01d2 \u7119\u679c\uff0c or b\u01ceij\u00ed qu\u0101n (Cant.\u00a0 baak3gat1 hyun1 \u767e\u5409\u5708).<\/p>\n<p>Respectively, these translations of \"bagel\" literally (character by character) mean \"cowrie \/ valuables fruit\", \"cultivated fruit\", \"baked fruit\", \"hundred \/ manifold auspiciousness circle\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emery Snyder spotted this sign in New York City's Chinatown:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,259,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-food","category-signs","category-translation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45535,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500\/revisions\/45535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}