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[Chinese] What does it means?

 
 
Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 07:14 am
I have this necklace, I'd like to know what does it means.
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 08:42 am
I'll see if I can find out.... (welcome to a2k!)
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J-B
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 08:46 am
it is a traditional version of 贵

it can mean that something is expensive

oh it can also symbolize that the freindship is such such fine.

and it can be a very good word to guest.

a good word anyway
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sozobe
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 08:48 am
Interesting!

Something like "good fortune"?
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J-B
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 08:55 am
yeah

chinsese people always give this such kind of blessings to their guests
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J-B
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 08:59 am
in china we also get an idiom----贵客临门。

客-----guest, 临 is a very mystic word, here it means get close , arrive at . 门 means door, here symblize the house. and as you see, 贵 is at the top.

all together is : an important , a fine guest is coming to our home!
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sozobe
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 09:05 am
Thanks, John-Bush!

(Not my question, but I love seeing these kinds of questions get answered. Google can only do so much...)
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Alhazred
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 09:43 am
Thanks John-Bush.
On the necklace there's a write "Honour", it should be the meaning of the ideogram, but you and a my friend (not chinese) told me the same thing, it means expansive.
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J-B
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 09:48 am
it is the most common meaning
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candy chou
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 01:20 pm
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in chinese, the literal meaning of 贵 is "dear,expensive……",usually as adj.
but it can be a word extended to bless or glorify somebody.
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Alhazred
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 01:24 pm
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candy_chou wrote:
in chinese, the literal meaning of 贵 is "dear,expensive……",usually as adj.
but it can be a word extended to bless or glorify somebody.

So, according to you could it means "honour"?
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Algis Kemezys
 
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Reply Thu 19 Aug, 2004 02:12 pm
When i was living in toronto i used to write out all my orders in chinese. It provided such a good laugh with the waiters I always thought the cooks made me fuller dishes because they could see a westerner had written it but it was correct.We just don't write like those folks but the whole fun of doing it and inventing dishes was great.
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