{"id":113,"date":"2005-06-06T13:41:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T05:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=113"},"modified":"2005-09-19T23:02:40","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T15:02:40","slug":"zhuyin-and-difficult-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2005\/zhuyin-and-difficult-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"zhuyin and difficult characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the business card of a traditional Chinese medicine clinic not far from my home:
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Note that in the top line (臻興中醫診所 — zhēn xīng Zhōngyī zhěnsuǒ<\/span>) the first two characters are annotated with zhuyin fuhao. That’s because many people do not know the first character. <\/p>\n

Most likely the store owner chose to go with a name many people would not understand or know how to say because a fortune-teller said it would bring good luck and riches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the business card of a traditional Chinese medicine clinic not far from my home: Note that in the top line (臻興中醫診所 — zhēn xīng Zhōngyī zhěnsuǒ) the first two characters are annotated with zhuyin fuhao. That’s because many people … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-characters","category-taiwan","category-zhuyin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}