{"id":72681,"date":"2026-01-26T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=72681"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:34:48","slug":"making-hanzi-with-japanese-kana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=72681","title":{"rendered":"Making hanzi with Japanese kana"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Weibo<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

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<\/p>\r\n

The sentence (from weibo):\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Su\u012br\u00e1n w\u01d2 b\u00f9 d\u01d2ng R\u00ecy\u01d4, d\u00e0n w\u01d2 f\u0113ich\u00e1ng k\u011bnd\u00ecng zh\u00e8 sh\u00ec s\u00ec g\u00e8 gu\u00f3r\u00e9n z\u01d4 p\u00e1i<\/p>\r\n

\u867d\u7136\u6211\u4e0d\u61c2\u65e5\u8bed\uff0c\u4f46\u6211\u975e\u5e38\u80af\u5b9a\u8fd9\u662f\u56db\u4e2a\u56fd\u4eba\u7ec4\u6392\u3002<\/p>\r\n

\"Although I do not understand Japanese, I am very sure that these are four Chinese people forming a team (in an Online Multiplayer Game).\"\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Indeed they are — and look at how these four players forming Chinese characters with a mixture of Japanese kana to mimic the hanzis' components, intermixing both hiragana and katakana. Ingenious!\u00a0

Oh, and \"beta\" from the Greek alphabet also comes into play a few times.

The four names:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n


1. \u4ec0\u4e48JB (what a d*ck)
2. \u4ed6\u5976\u5976\u7684 (lit., \"his grandma\", meaning \"damn it\" \/ \"damn his granny\"? LOL)
3. \u6797\u5317 (this is perhaps the only non-cursing \"normal\" name of the four)\u00a0
4. \u554a\u5bf9\u5bf9 (oh yes yes)

<\/p>\r\n

I literally \"wow-ed\" at these four players' ingenuity — and the fifth netizen who found out and posted it online!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

[Thanks to anonymous.]<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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