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34 Post author: Wei_Dai 19 July 2014 10:08AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 25 July 2014 04:23:14AM 4 points [-]

To expand on this, there are several thousand commonly used Chinese characters, each with different meanings. These map onto about 400 possible syllables (ignoring tone). However not all combinations of two Chinese characters are valid Chinese words. My Chinese input software gives three possibilities when I type in "wei dai".

  • 未带: not bring
  • 微带: microstrip
  • 危殆: grave danger

However new Chinese words are invented all the time, using combinations of existing Chinese characters. In this case I believe the highest bidders of my domain actually want to use it for 微贷, which means microloan.