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Questions about understanding words or phrases within a given context.
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What is the meaning of 多米 in the music service?
My guess is that it comes from the musical scale DO-re-MI in English. Googling didn’t turn up a standard way to transliterate this – someone used 豆, which may be closer to the English sound, but the …
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"A pair of mandarin oranges" as a homophone of "the gold"
Actually 金 and 柑 are both pronounced gam1 in Cantonese, according to Rita Mei-Wah Choy’s ‘Read and Write Chinese’.
While it may be better to refer to Shantou as Chaozhou (潮州), I think CA55CE37 is ont …