How Chinese Writing Works
Or rather, why does my clueless American neighbor’s “cool” Chinese tattoo actually say, “Evil Butt”?
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7 min readSep 29, 2021
One hot summer afternoon, I walked past the front of my neighbor’s house (or rather, as they say in German — Wohngemeinschaft — basically a flatshare, but German-style) and immediately burst out laughing like a maniac. The young dude, freshly arrived in…
