"Dong Jingwei" might be code for something. Check this out.
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I am a native Chinese speaker. It is important to remember that there are many homophones in Chinese, since there are many characters that sound exactly the same when spoken aloud but look completely different when written out on paper. In other words, if you speak just a single character out loud to me, I will not be able to tell exactly which one it is unless I am given additional context. This actually reminds me of the Q post that talks about double/multiple meanings. Also, there is a possibility that “Dong Jingwei” is an alias and not the guy’s real name.
German has some words like that. For instance “Sie” can be either “she” or “they” depending on what comes after. “Sie habt” - She has. “Sie haben”- They have.
Thanks for that explanation. When I saw the name, I figured it was a joke of some sort. I posted in another thread that I'll bet he has that name on a business card.
Right. And to add, the input doesn't even specify tones, so there could be tens of same sounding characters. Everything always gets upvoted here, it's laughable.
Agreed. I would think that’s actually more of a probability than a possibility.