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Bamboo shoot salad (225 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

dish, as sup, a Lao word describing this kind of spicy salad dish, is a homophone of the loanword for soup. The name of the dish is often misspelled as

Longkan Shoujian (454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by the Song publishers. (Emperor Taizu's grandfather had the name 敬, a homophone of 鏡.) The earliest surviving edition of the work is an incomplete Korean

Anak (710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Anak (/ˈeɪnæk/; Hebrew: עֲנָק‎, homophone to a word for "giant, long neck, necklace"; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʕaˈnaq]) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible

Upsilon Andromedae c (1,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

abbreviated Upsilon And c, υ And c), formally named Samh /ˈsɑːm/ (a homophone with the star Salm), is an extrasolar planet orbiting the Sun-like star

Wonsu (1,004 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wonsu is the highest military rank in the armed forces of North Korea and South Korea. The title of Wonsu or its variations had been used as the title

Turnip cake (666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

during Chinese New Year, since the word for radish (菜頭; chhài-thâu) is a homophone for "good fortune" (好彩頭; hó-chhái-thâu) in the Hokkien language. In Taiwan

Apam balik (934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines as Tarambulan. Mànjiān (曼煎) is a homophone of Mǎnqīng (滿清), which ruled the final imperial dynasty in China, while

Fenqing (611 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

depends on the person. Chinese critics often refer to them using the homophone characters "粪青" which are pronounced identically but translate to "shit-youth"

Dukie Weems (1,387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

remains consistently loyal to Dukie. His original nickname, "Dukie", is a homophone for a slang term for feces. After Mr. Prez lets him use the school showers

Ford SYNus (356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

soft interior) and US, which stands for Urban Sanctuary. Its name is a homophone of sinuous, which means curving, or graceful. The design mimics that of

March Hare (1,178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(which is pronounced to rhyme with "mayor", according to Carroll, and a homophone of "hare" in a non-rhotic accent), the personal messenger to the White

My Lover from the Planet Meow (1,245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ngo as Dylan Tsang Siu-yan (曾紹仁; homophone to 真小人, the real villain) Alycia Chan as Eliza Kam Ping-miu (金萍梅; homophone to classic novel 金瓶梅 Jin Ping Mei)

Fish in Chinese mythology (1,905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

minority ethnic groups in China.: 4 The Chinese word for "fish", yu, is a homophone for "abundance", "plenty", and "affluence" (yu 餘); therefore, fishes are

Rogue Emperor (1,605 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mountain bandits to the Emperor of China. Rainbow Ching as Yau Yu Sze (尤如絲; homophone to "shredded squid") Chu Kam Chun's step-mother and Chu Cheung Fun's mother

Cayce, Kentucky (520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

centrally located in Kentucky's westernmost county, Fulton. The name is a homophone of "Casey". Cayce includes the area east and west from Willingham Bottom

Gai pied (351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

founded by Jean Le Bitoux. Its name, which literally means "Gay foot", is a homophone of guêpier, which means a hornet's nest or, figuratively, a trap or pitfall

K9 Cop (2,881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brother-in-law and lives at his home. Linda Chung as Ma Chi-ho (馬志昊)(homophone to 媽子好, Mother is good) Chung Wai-kin's daughter and Ma Chi-chung's older

Nagoya Grampus (1,708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

shachi) statues atop Nagoya Castle, also called shachi; this word is a homophone with the Japanese word for orca, a species formerly referred to as "grampus"

Qieyun (1,509 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Each rhyme group was subdivided into homophone groups (xiǎoyùn 小韻 "small rhyme"). The first entry in each homophone group gives the pronunciation as a fanqie

Lady Sour (519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tung's father Kai Sho's husband the name is a pun, the Chinese being a homophone of "bank" Jade Leung Kai Sho (計素) Tsin Tsung's principle wife Kai Chun's

Manchu name (1,178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Manchu), Susai (5 in Manchu), Liošici (67, a Mandarin homophone) and Bašinu (85, a Mandarin homophone) e.g. Dorgon (badger) and Arsalan (lion) Aisin Gioro

Their name liveth for evermore (429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

someone might inappropriately add an "s" after "peace" ("peaces" being a homophone of "pieces"), but relented when the phrase was cut down to just the second

LinuxTLE (92 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

extension for Red Hat Linux.[citation needed] The pronunciation "talay" is a homophone of the Thai word ทะเล (the sea). "ความเป็นมา". Linux.thai.net. Thai Linux

Westonaria (153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Westonaria when municipal status was attained in 1952. The name is a homophone of ‘western area’, after the township developing company Western Areas

Sterno Records (54 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gramophone records from 1926 through 1935. The label was a subsidiary of Homophone Records. List of record labels Rust, Brian (1980). Brian Rust's Guide

Love as a Predatory Affair (2,781 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(魯竇靜樂; homophone to "Dad is worthless 老豆淨落") Lo Sat's wife. Kai-fong, Kai-lun and Kai-kei's mother. Kitty Yuen as Lo Kai-fong (魯佳芳; homophone to "old

Elmingir (159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

protected the Byzantine ships. His name is, probably coincidentally, a homophone of Tungusic elmin, "young horse". This was also the name of a Manchu tribe

Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon (1,416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Bing Dwen Dwen possibly means ice hulu, as 墩 (Dūn) in its name is a homophone of 礅 (Dūn) in the word 糖礅 in Tianjin dialect, meaning tanghulu, the prototype

Every Step You Take (TV series) (693 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

after all. Suet Nei as Leung Giu (梁嬌) Moses Chan as Kam Yin Chong (甘言重)(homophone to So Serious、 Korean actor Kim Hyun Joong) Helen Ma as Szeto Fei Fei

Ghost of Relativity (4,546 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

end and have a daughter together. Kristal Tin as May Suen Suk-Mui (孫淑梅; homophone to "sour, rancid, moldy 酸餿霉") The new and former receptionist at GSZ Architects

City of the Rats (1,040 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Noradz. He also realized that "Noradz" was a homophone of "No Rats" and "Ra-Kacharz" was a homophone of "Rat-Catchers". The overrun of rats in their

Silvertone Records (Selfridges) (616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1930s. After 1935 Silvertone Records issued 8-inch discs made by British Homophone Co. Ltd. for sale in Selfridges department stores using masters from their

Radical Movement of Social Democratic Alliance (148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Κίνηση Σοσιαλδημοκρατικής Συμμαχίας, ΡΙΚΣΣΥ (a play on words with the homophone ρήξη, "rupture"), was a short-lived (2012-2013) political party in Greece

Middle Chinese (5,959 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

homophony. Characters with identical pronunciations are grouped into homophone classes, whose pronunciation is described using two fanqie characters

Joe Cheng (1,264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its title track is a play on the third word in his name, Chang (暢) as a homophone of the word "Sing" (唱) in Chinese. Joe Cheng, who was previously (prior

IBM Printer Model 4 (285 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

point-of-sale printer launched in 1991. It was the direct relative and homophone of the IBM Printer Model 3. It and its successor, the IBM 4610, nowadays

Megaherz (1,936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Megaherz (German name meaning "Mega-heart", a pun on the homophone "megahertz") is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band formed in Eichenau in 1993. Megaherz

Mr. Scruff (album) (203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

track that references sea creatures – the album's closer, "Wail" (being a homophone for "whale"). The album is currently out of print, but in 2005 it was

Miyatake Gaikotsu (231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

words of the name of magazine's publisher Miyatake, whose given name is a homophone of the Japanese word gaikotsu ("skeleton"). Fujitani 1996, p. 199. Fujitani

Short End of the Stick (TV series) (4,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(金大力; homophone to 咁大力, So powerful) Kam Heung's cousin and Law Hai's wife. She manages the Kam family servants. Willie Wai as Law Hai (羅蟹; homophone to

Martian language (1,413 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chinese character may be replaced with: A character that is a (quasi-)homophone. It can be Standard Chinese, Chinese dialects, or foreign languages. A

Leutha (339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

And all the tendernesses of the soul cast forth as filth and mire. The homophone relationship to Martin Luther has often been pointed out. Angela Esterhammer

Names of Japan (4,503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for Japan, Yamato, replacing the 倭 ("dwarf") character for Wa with the homophone 和 ("peaceful, harmonious"). Wa 和 was often combined with 大 ("great") to

Khanom chan (412 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

connotations of prosperity in the Thai language: "nine" (Thai: เก้า) is a homophone of the phrase "to step forward" (Thai: ก้าว). As a result, khanom chan

Tokachi River (130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

surrounding Tokachi Province, with each character corresponding to a Japanese homophone. The province was named after this river, which in turn was derived from

Bowing in Japan (3,968 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bow for the samurai. The Japanese word お辞儀 (ojigi) was derived from the homophone お時宜, which originally meant "the opportune timing to do something". It

Descent (434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Vampire Diaries "Descent", a 2013 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles Dissent (homophone) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Descent

Crystalate Manufacturing Company (701 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

competition from EMI (later the fourth Imperial Records producer) and British Homophone, among a total of 22 British record labels in the mid-1930s, Crystalate

Elph.zwölf (280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for this release, is that the German word for eleven is 'elf', and is a homophone with ELpH, while 'zwölf' means twelve in German, and the CD was the twelfth

Koch (314 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(disambiguation) Kotch, a 1971 film starring Walter Matthau Coke (disambiguation), a homophone of some pronunciations of Koch Cooch Behar (disambiguation), also Koch

Elephant joke (2,622 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

generally shared aloud as opposed to in writing. Thus the appropriate homophone, "red" or "read", must be inferred. If "red" is assumed, then the problem

List of flags with Spanish-language text (50 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Seville Province –present NO8DO [visual representation of "NO MADEJA DO", a homophone of "NO ME HA DEJADO"] visual representation of SHE HAS NOT ABANDONED ME

The (1,791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as /ðiː/ (homophone of the archaic pronoun thee) when followed by a vowel sound or used as

Xiomara (given name) (258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

German name Wigmar, which means "battle ready" or "battle famous" (also a homophone of the Guanche toponym Güímar) or derived from uuiu (cf. gwiw) which means

Tataouine Governorate (494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tourist sites. This is where George Lucas filmed part of Star Wars, and a homophone of the Tatooine city was chosen to be the home planet of the protagonist's

FUCT (clothing) (1,680 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Kaupas. Brunetti has said he choose the name "FUCT" because it was a homophone of the expletive "fucked" and he wanted people to question its pronunciation

Hörgr (876 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hearg has become harrow in modern English placenames (unrelated to the homophone harrow "agricultural implement"). The London Borough of Harrow derives

Campe (1,199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Greek word for caterpillar or silkworm. It is probably related to the homophone καμπή (with the accent on the second syllable) whose first meaning is

Reunion dinner (255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

年年有魚/餘; (nián nián yǒu yú, or "every year there is fish/leftover") is a homophone for phrases which mean "be blessed every year" or "have abundant profit

Yaz (217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Greatest, a stage name of American actor and rapper Bryshere Y. Gray The homophone Jazz (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated

Logogram (3,596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chinese homophones in lexical decision tasks have found an advantage for homophone processing in Chinese, and a disadvantage for processing homophones in English

Mandarin Chinese profanity (10,346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Note: One should note that in Middle Chinese the words for 屌 and 鳥 were homophones. The fǎnqiè of "屌" (丁了切) and the fǎnqiè of "Chinese: 鳥" (都了切) denoted

My Dangerous Mafia Retirement Plan (1,279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

program, Sau-Kei's mother and Liu's wife. Mat Yeung as Liu Sau-Kei (廖守基) (homophone to cellphone with pee, 尿手機), a CID officer, Liu and Win's son. He is in

Momentary Lapse of Reason (TV series) (1,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

it is up to Gum Wa to save the city... Tavia Yeung as Leung Sam (梁芯; homophone to conscience) A self-combed woman who vows to never get married. She

Fez (That '70s Show) (304 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

name is deemed unpronounceable by his friends, so they call him "Fez" (a homophone of "FES", an acronym for foreign exchange student). The series' official

Plunder of Peach and Plum (283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

recent college graduates, Tao Jianping ("Tao" is a homophone for peach), and Li Lilian ("Li" is a homophone for plum). Married, the two hope to change society

Names of Vietnam (4,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Middle Chinese was first written using the logograph "戉" for an axe (a homophone), in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (c

Carnelli (613 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

voiced the groan that indicated that they'd realized that "Turn" is a homophone of "tern," a seabird.[citation needed] Play proceeds around the circle

Blue Veins (TV series) (1,521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

"1-minute back alive" ability. Lai Wai-ling as Ghost Yau Ling-mui (丘玲梅) (homophone of ghost whisperer, 幽靈媒), a fortune teller in university and Ho Yuet's

Expurgation (1,634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

anything with a vulgarity in its title, so "butthole" was replaced with the homophone "but whole". In 2023 new versions of Roald Dahl's books were published

Baxter's transcription for Middle Chinese (1,067 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

subdivided into 193 rhyme groups and then into homophone groups. The pronunciation of each homophone group is given by a fanqie formula, a pair of common

Monsieur et Madame jokes (1,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Madame Mauve are said to have a son called Guy, where his name is a homophone for guimauve ("marshmallow"). The inventor of this type of joke has never

Jazz (disambiguation) (463 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Jazz dance Larry "Jazz" Anthony (born 1977), American R&B singer The homophone Yaz This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title

Iyokan (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

students studying for exams on each packet. The name "iyokan" is also a near-homophone for "good feeling" in Japanese, and is used as such in its marketing.

Waubonsie (740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

English phrase "escaping at daybreak" or "walks away at daybreak" is a near homophone both to waaban-izhi ("Break of Day") and to waabaanizii ("He Causes Paleness")

Orania (disambiguation) (69 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Orania Papazoglou, American mystery writer Oranje (disambiguation), a homophone of Orania Urania (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles

Inspector Gourmet (3,917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kenneth Ma as Bill Kei Yeung Tak-kei (楊得基; self given nickname Bill Kei is homophone to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's name) Chu Sau-na's younger half-brother

Jia Baoyu (448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Baoyu in the novel, a minor character with the surname of "Zhen" (甄), a homophone for "truth" or "real" in Mandarin. Zhen Baoyu shares many of Jia Baoyu's

Aghadrumsee (569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sallows. The see syllable in the current spelling of Aghadrumsee is a homophone of sidhe. This gives Aghadrumsee its folklore meaning of field of the

Dylan Eitharong (312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

words, with its Thai transliteration meaning "smells good" and English a homophone for "home". Bush, Austin (2023-07-28). "10 Must-Try Restaurants in Bangkok"

Yizheng (422 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

temple in 1117. Yizhen county was renamed Yizheng in 1723, because the homophone "zhen(禛)" as a part of the Yongzheng Emperor's Chinese name was deemed

Beaver (disambiguation) (705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

beaver fur Beevers, a surname Bieber (surname) Belvoir (disambiguation), a homophone used for names and locations Busy beaver, a game in theoretical computer

Psalm 22 (Bruckner) (641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and soloists, and piano. The setting of the first part is in general homophone, with a few imitations on "So will ich nichts Übles fürchten", "Du has

Wadōkaichin (896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(和, wa) + "together" (同, dō). This was likely chosen as a fortuitous homophone for the era name Wadō (和銅): the wa (和) is also used to mean "Japan", and

Kelvin Mercer (344 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eventually evolve into Plug Wonder Why, which would be shortened to a homophone of the original, Plug Won.[citation needed] Mercenary – Derived from the

Faux pas derived from Chinese pronunciation (654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

often taboo, especially to the elderly as the term for this act is a homophone with the term for the act of attending another's funeral, "to send off

Gaoli bangzi (731 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

History argues that the term originated as the Chinese language near-homophone "幫子" which means "helper", referring to the nobi servants that accompanied

Tung Shing (609 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chinese and Mandarin Chinese, the pronunciation of the word for "book" is a homophone of a word for defeated (輸), so Tung Shu sounded like "Defeated in All

Ur-Hamlet (1,297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

who was a noverint, a Seneca-influenced playwright, and whose name is a homophone of Aesop's "kid", might be the author of the Hamlet that Nashe mentions

Skull (disambiguation) (363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(disambiguation) Schull, County Cork, Ireland Scull (disambiguation), a homophone Skull Valley (Utah) Skull and crossbones (disambiguation) All pages with

Héctor Buitrago (300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

partnerships. Hector Buitrago's Conector (a play on words between the homophone con Héctor, "with Héctor", and the word “connector”), released in 2006

Cerean (87 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Star Wars universe Cereal (disambiguation) Syrian (disambiguation) (a homophone) Kerian District This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

Melite (Attica) (370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

was believed that the name had a Phoenician influence, in fact it is homophone of the ancient names of the island of Malta and of Samothrace; today,

L8 (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

8-bit character set Barcelona Metro line 8 Late (disambiguation), an homophone L8R (disambiguation), an abbreviation 8L (disambiguation) This disambiguation

The No No Girl (2,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

love sickness for Richmond. Eddie Cheung as Richmond Chong Fu-ho (莊富豪, homophone to 裝富豪, acting like rich man), CEO of Shakespeare Group and head of the

Arkansaw (73 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

County Arkansaw Territory, a U.S. territory from 1819 to 1836 Arkansas, a homophone All pages with titles beginning with Arkansaw All pages with titles containing

Braille pattern dots-5 (1,068 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

/ ㄹ Mainland Chinese Braille , (comma) Taiwanese Braille tone 4 Two-Cell Chinese Braille homophone discriminator Nemeth Braille "run over" indicator

Swallowtail Butterfly (film) (865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

despise the nickname, and in retribution call the immigrants by the homophone Yen Thieves (円盗, en tou), anglicised as "Yentowns" in the film's English

Dutton Speedwords (9,167 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

-x a homophone would have been created. We may also assume that the same would apply to the -v ~ -i pair, i.e. if by adding -v we had a homophone, we must

Oranje (167 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

meanings of an English spelling of Oranje Orania (disambiguation), a homophone of Oranje This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the

Police dog (2,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

National Police Dog Foundation. Retrieved 22 May 2022. K-9 or K9 (a homophone of canine) "What Do K-9 Police Dogs Do?". American Kennel Club. 3 September

Cao (Chinese surname) (1,530 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

establishment of Cao Wei. Its modern use as a curse word depends on a recent homophone and is unrelated to the surname. Cǎo was likely *tsʰˤuʔ in Old Chinese

Kiln (3,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

” Bowen was pointing out the humorous fact that “kill” and “kiln” are homophones. Despite its origins, the modern pronunciation of "kiln," where the "n"

Cantonese bopomofo (448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the country's major dialect" 《全國主要方言區方音對照表》, Beijing, 1954 Fung Tinlip (馮田獵), "Cantonese Homophone Characters Dictionary" 《粵語同音字典》, Hong Kong, 1974

Baojun Yep (664 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"悦也" literally translates as "joy also" or "happy together", is the homophone of "越野" which means "offroad". In February 2023, the Chinese joint-venture

Bing Lee (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

however, is surname 李 (lǐ), given name 冰 (bīng). This is technically not a homophone, as the tones of the syllables are different. [1] "Family concern not

The Battlefield (400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Barbara Yung as Yuk Dip-yee (Jade Butterfly) "butterfly" is a Chinese homophone to "spy" Lau Siu-ming as Chiu Ko Lam Tin as Lei See Lung Tin-sang as Wu-hoi

Turbo (disambiguation) (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

team in the Philippine Basketball Association from 2000—2005 Turbot (a homophone), a type of fish This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

Jagoff (506 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

etymology and history of the word, as he had confused it with the more base homophone, "jack off", common slang for masturbation. In response The Beaver County

Karina (name) (398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(disambiguation) Carina (disambiguation), a homonym of Karina Kareena, a homophone of Karina Karlina Karine https://forebears.io/forenames/karina Forebears

Jidori (81 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jidori is a Japanese homophone which may refer to: Jidori, (地鶏), literally "local chicken", chickens whose parents or one parent are native to Japan and

Marissa (name) (773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

by Kate Fisher Marisa (given name) Melissa (sometimes pronounced as a homophone in other languages) Find-Baby-Name.com Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback

Guixu (736 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In interpretations of Guixu, the xu is sometimes conflated with its homophone, the Taoist concept of xu (虚), or an equilibrium state of emptiness or

Rakuten Monkeys (914 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

International Baseball Stadium. Their new name in Chinese, taoyuan (桃猿), is a homophone to their new home county. Despite the name change, La New Corporation

Mizu shōbai (496 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aspects of the ukiyo (浮世, lit. 'fleeting world'), with its antithetical homophone 'sorrowful cycle of existence' or 'the floating world' (憂世), mizu-shōbai

Eijudō Hibino at Seventy-one (Toyokuni I) (2,802 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

The homophone 高 (taka) means 'great' or 'high.' The eggplant has long been considered to have associations with fertility, and is also a homophone for

Suqian (549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the county was annexed by Xuzhou and renamed Suqian in 762 because the homophone "yu (豫)" as the given name of the Emperor Daizong of Tang was deemed to

Lu (state) (892 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1995) suggests a semantic connection between the toponym 魯 Lǔ and its homophone 鹵 lǔ "salty, rock salt" (< OC *C-rāʔ) since that region was a salt marsh

Niohuru (1,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Manchu for wolf," had chosen Lang as their surname because it was a homophone for the Chinese word for "wolf.") Materials for a Genealogy of the Niohuru

Charles Wright Academy (1,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

been worn. Due to the obscure nature of the term Tarrier and it being a homophone of the small dog, the “terrier,” the Charles Wright Academy community

General Tso's chicken (1,268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Zongtang" was not a reference to Zuo Zongtang, but rather a reference to the homophone zongtang (宗堂), meaning "the hall of the ancestors". The dish is known

Shikishima (136 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

luxury cruise train set branded Train Suite Shiki-shima. The name is a homophone of Shikishima , which means "Islands of four seasons" in Japanese. This

Lang (Chinese surname) (341 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Niohuru, whose name was derived from niohe, Manchu for wolf," had chosen Lang as their surname because it was a homophone for the Chinese word for "wolf.")

Édika (244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with an otherwise human behaviour, named Clarke Gaybeul (deliberately homophone to Clark Gable). Edika publications in Fluide Glacial and Pilote – BDoubliées

House of Spirits (TV series) (4,139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

entire Po family slave over her. Bob Cheung as David Po Yi (寶怡; name homophone to British rocker "David Bowie") Cyrus Ho as Childhood Po Yi (童年寶怡) The

Pre-ferment (1,917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"polonais" is the word for "Polish"). Some nineteenth-century sources use the homophone "pouliche", a French word that typically means a filly. With either spelling

Tom Swifty (1,174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

throwing this soup on the ground!" said Tom with wanton disregard. (a homophone of wonton) “There’s no more room in the hay barn,” said Tom balefully

New Year tree (1,469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and peach. The mandarin plant is called Kat (Chinese: 桔), which is a homophone to Chinese: 吉, standing for good luck. The peach flower stands for good

Liaison (French) (4,717 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

sept ("seven"): It is consistently pronounced the same: /sɛt/, as a homophone of cette. huit ("eight"): It is /ɥi/ when before a consonant-initial noun

New Year tree (1,469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and peach. The mandarin plant is called Kat (Chinese: 桔), which is a homophone to Chinese: 吉, standing for good luck. The peach flower stands for good

Japanese numerals (2,555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The number 9 is also considered unlucky; when pronounced ku, it is a homophone for suffering (苦). The number 13 is sometimes considered unlucky, though

Maghas (878 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sarir sending tribute to the city of Maghas, based on the name being a homophone for "fly" in Persian. Other historical sources mentioning Maghas either

Di Gi Charat Nyo! (1,958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Yu-Rei has a very scary face that she sometimes uses. Her name is a homophone for the Japanese word for ghost. Aqua (アクア Akua) Age: Over 120 Voiced

Chu Hua Yuan (1,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

They all have some auspicious and luck meanings from their homophone. Scallion (葱) is a homophone for "cleverness" (聪) in Teochew, while leek (蒜) for (good

Matthew Fry (68 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1990), an English semi-professional footballer Matt Frei (born 1963; homophone of Fry), British journalist and broadcaster This disambiguation page lists

Scull (disambiguation) (159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

ghost town in Greene County, United States Skull (disambiguation), a homophone SCUL, the Subversive Choppers Urban Legion, a Boston-based modified bicycle

Dongzhi Festival (1,552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

location missing publisher (link) Yu, Runze. "A Chinese sweet that's a homophone for reunion". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2023-02-15. "Dongzhi Festival celebrates

Ye (surname) (2,585 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(IPA: [ɕiɛp]). As late as the 11th-century Guangyun Dictionary, it was a homophone of other characters that are pronounced shè in modern Mandarin and sip

Karlgren–Li reconstruction of Middle Chinese (1,544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

subdivided into 193 rhyme groups and then into homophone groups. The pronunciation of each homophone group is given by a fanqie formula, a pair of common

Duri (name) (297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Korean name. It is a Gyeongsang dialect word for "two", as well as a homophone of a differently-spelled standard Korean word (둘이) meaning "two people"

Kaga dialect (1,978 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hayaku shinasai (早くしなさいね hurry up and do it), hayo shine (はよしね), becomes a homophone with the second part of the vulgar hayaku shine (早く死ね literally: 'hurry

Come with Me (TV series) (1,921 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

seduce him and then uses that against him. Helena Law as Lee Ho (李好; homophone to 你好, How are you?) Mok Tai-hung and Siu-tou's supportive mother. She

Wars of In-Laws II (619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

alter ego character in the original Wars of In-Laws series. 畢平凡 is also a homophone to 不平凡, which means "extraordinary". 41st TVB Anniversary Awards (2008)

Symbel (2,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

feast, caraouse, enjoy one's self". Not to be confused is the unrelated homophone symbel, symble meaning "always, ever". In Old English poetry, especially

Embarq (1,909 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Fiber Optic Network", which was Sprint's bragging right, but was also a homophone of the word "phone"). This was challenged in many lawsuits by Sprint PCS

Tang Weixing (838 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

related to Go: The wei in his name, taken from his mother's surname, is a homophone of the wei in weiqi, while the xing in his name, meaning 'star', is in

Pasquale Amato (1,257 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1924, he made an obscure (and poorly recorded) group of records for the Homophone company. Amato made just one known electrical recording—the live-recorded

Lishui (sea-waves) (1,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

(卧水) patterns) are often used to represent tides (潮, cháo) which is the homophone and symbolism for the court "audience" (朝, cháo).: 389 Therefore, when

Yukon (disambiguation) (421 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Yukon Gold Rush University of Connecticut, often referred to as UConn, a homophone of "Yukon" Yukon Gold (disambiguation) Yukon, a junior synonym of Scotinotylus

Line 2 (Wuhan Metro) (1,373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

unnecessary repetition and pronunciation challenges. "Jia" in Pangxiejia has a homophone that tells the story of history as the site of Metro station was once

Ibiza (4,981 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ee-BEE-sə, and so forth) and never pronounces the first syllable as a homophone of “eye”. Phoenician colonists called the island Ibossim or Iboshim (cf

Rhotic consonant (3,510 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

/eː/ and /øː/ are raised in this context, so that meer becomes a near-homophone of mier, whereas deur becomes a quasi-rhyme of muur. In citation forms

OK (5,374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with a retired missionary) that various West African languages have near-homophone discourse markers with meanings such as "yes indeed" or which serve as

Canton Tower (2,269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cantonese) and "Yangdianfeng" (Chinese: 羊巅峰; lit. 'Peak of the Ram City'; homophone of "epilepsy" in colloquial Chinese). The Naming was reconsidered in 2010

People's Daily (2,554 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aspiration, CPC creates glorious achievements", September 2019 Zhong Sheng 钟声 Homophone of 中声 Zhōng shēng 'voice of China' Commentary on major international affairs

Yau Tong (1,556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tong" literally means "oil pond" in Cantonese. It was once known as 游塘, a homophone, which simply meant "pond". The English transliteration was first recorded

Double Ninth Festival (1,054 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

daughters back home for visiting. Stores sell rice cakes (糕 "gāo", a homophone for height 高) with mini colorful flags to represent zhuyu. Most people

Hitman: Agent 47 (2,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

than even 47 himself (he explains that her name "Katia van Dees" is a homophone for her real name, "Quatre-vingt-dix"; which is French for "90"). He shows

Japanese irregular verbs (2,162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hashiru "run", 入る hairu "enter", and 帰る kaeru "return". There are also homophone verbs that could be either godan or ichidan verbs; for example, 生きる ikiru

Lemont High School (2,209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

community vote narrowly favored the name Titans over the Engines, a near homophone of the outgoing mascot name. However, the Titans name was never officially

Humerus (3,202 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sensation (a "funny" feeling), as well as the fact that the bone's name is a homophone of 'humorous'. It lies posterior to the medial epicondyle, and is easily

Dada-Jok (339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with its representative in Yugoslavia, Dragan Aleksić. The word Dada is homophone to the Serbian interjection "da, da" meaning "yes, yes". The word "jok"

Brick Slaves (4,086 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hospital stay to try to flatter her. Janice Shum as Chu Yan-oi (招仁愛; homophone to "attract people to love") A clerk in the property management department

English prefix (1,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hispanoamérica, hispanophobia homo- same homogeneous, homogenize, homologous, homophone, homozygous hydro- relating to water, or using water hydroelectricity

List of English words of Chinese origin (555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cantonese toi4 fung1 Wok Cantonese 鑊 wok6 — Wonton Cantonese 雲吞 wan4 tan1 homophone in Cantonese with the original 餛飩, cf. Mandarin húntún, lit. 'cloud swallow'

Futian, Shenzhen (2,478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

their farmlands were cultivated in lattice shapes, which in Chinese is a homophone for "Futian" meaning "blessed fields". Luohu District was established

Lunar New Year (4,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

other products derived from pineapples or daikon since the latter is a homophone for "good fortune" in Hokkien. In the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, including

Alfa Romeo 164 (2,285 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as the number "164" had a very negative connotation (路死 — a Chinese homophone meaning "all the way to death"), and "168" has quite the opposite meaning

Brad Boxberger (2,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Boxberger used two consecutive emojis of a box and a burger ("📦🍔") as a homophone for his last name, an idea he said that his wife had helped create. On

Irgen Gioro (1,325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Surnames, as their Chinese family name. It was according to the Chinese homophone and their anecdote of origin. Other utilization of Chinese family names

Leave Society (907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reading of Leave Society, I did not know what, if anything, to make of the homophone "leaf" and "leave." On the second reading, when I was better accustomed

Braille pattern dots-4 (2,091 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Japanese Braille yōon Korean Braille g- / ㄱ Taiwanese Braille tone 3 Two-Cell Chinese Braille homophone discriminator Nemeth Braille not an independent sign

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (3,490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the house of Marcus Lycus, and Hero's love interest. Her name is also a homophone of the Latin word "Filia", which means daughter. This foreshadows her

UConn Huskies (4,380 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

before then, the teams were referred to as the Aggies. Although there is a homophonic relationship between "UConn" and the Yukon, where Huskies are native,

Liu Zhijun (Later Liang) (3,094 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

which was a homophone of "brown" (棕), while his grandsons used the generational character Cheng (承), which rhymed with (or perhaps was a homophone of, at that

Victoria Monks (632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between 1906 and 1913. and also for Pathe, Jumbo Fonotipia, Edison and Homophone. "Ain't the Old Place Good Enough for You", (Clarence Wainwright Murphy

Hayley Williams (6,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of their first bass players. Once the group learned the meaning of the homophone "paramour" ("secret lover"), they decided to adopt the name, using the

Ricochet (Thunderbirds) (1,663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

"ricochet" because Gerry Anderson liked the sound effect and found the homophone amusing. As with Scott Tracy, the face of the O'Shea puppet was modelled

Mr. Scruff (2,557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

opening track on Scruff's first album. This was followed by "Wail" (as a homophone for "Whale"), also on his first album. Keep It Unreal (1999) featured

Pyrus pyrifolia (2,181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In China, the term "sharing a pear" (Chinese: 分梨; pinyin: fēn lí) is a homophone of "separate" (simplified Chinese: 分离; traditional Chinese: 分離; pinyin:

List of Greyhawk deities (11,369 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

architect of the dungeons, Zagyg, awaited them. ("Zagyg" is a reverse homophone of "Gygax", and was Gygax's inside joke that the person who designed this

Anti-Japanese sentiment (9,736 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

jun (Chinese: 黃軍; pinyin: huáng jūn) – "Yellow Army", a pun on "皇軍" (homophone huáng jūn, "Imperial Army"), used during World War II to represent Imperial

Symbolism (arts) (6,522 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

a swan trapped in a frozen lake. Significantly, in French, cygne is a homophone of signe, a sign. The overall effect is of overwhelming whiteness; and

Mr Standfast (2,343 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ponders the phrases he overheard - Bommaerts, Chelius, Elfenbein ('Ivory', homophone of 'Ivery'), Wild Bird and Caged Bird. He heads for home, but Amos warns

Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing (4,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deer is a symbol of longevity. The Chinese name of deer is Lu is also a homophone for Chinese character 'wealth' and 'official promotion'; it is therefore

Les Chants Magnétiques (1,103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Magnetic Songs". However, the French word for 'fields' (champs) is a homophone of the French word for 'songs' (chants), so in French, if the title is

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (2,693 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

character, Ada, wanted to be a lepidopterist. "Ada" is also a pun, a homophone, for "Ardor." Marina, Ada's mother, pronounces her name with "long, deep"

Manchu people (18,299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Manchu), Susai (5 in Manchu), Liošici(67, a Mandarin homophone) and Bašinu(85, a Mandarin homophone): 243 8.H e.g. Dorgon (badger) and Arsalan (lion): 979

Skimo (1,955 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

defeated by Super-Fat (Fatima) in the episode "Arena Skimo". His name is the homophone of the Spanish sentence "Aquí les voy", which means "Here I come". He

Adachi Ginkō (841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name of magazine's publisher Miyatake Gaikotsu, whose given name is a homophone of the Japanese word gaikotsu. Meiji Constitution controversy View of

Mondegreen (5,802 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

homophonically translated into one's own language, e.g. "cockroach" from Spanish cucaracha, and soramimi, a Japanese term for deliberate homophonic misinterpretation

Mai Shiraishi (1,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

YouTube channel, called "My Channel" (stylized in all lowercase and a homophone of her given name). As of August 2021, it has reached 1.35 million subscribers

Toilets in Japan (6,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brand name commonly found is the Otohime (音姫, lit. "Sound Princess", also homophone with a legendary goddess Otohime). This device is now routinely placed

Vietnam (28,044 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Middle Chinese was first written using the logograph "戉" for an axe (a homophone), in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (c

Bell (5,908 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Shintoist and Buddhist bells are used in religious ceremonies. Suzui, a homophone meaning both "cool" and "refreshing", are spherical bells which contain

Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (3,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

confusion about the origins of some terms, due to the large number of homophones in Chinese and Sino-Vietnamese. For example, both 明 (bright) and 冥 (dark)

List of youth-related terms (832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for a (food or drinks) waiter groom (not the etymologically unrelated homophone meaning "husband-to-be") originally meant "young male", possibly related

Gag name (3,381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dragon". Shenzhen's KK100 building used to be known as the Kingkey (a near homophone of "kinky") 100 and Kingkey Finance Tower. The title of the 1979 Frank

Michelle Pfeiffer (14,211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In cricketing parlance, this is referred to as a "five for", a near-homophone for "Pfeiffer", which resulted in the nickname "Michelle". In 2005, Pfeiffer

Chinese character classification (3,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

determinative was combined with 林 (lín; 'woods') to produce the water-related homophone 淋 (lín; 'to pour'). However, the phonetic is not always as meaningless

Dear Rouge (2,454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the name of Danielle's home town, Red Deer, Alberta, "dear" being a homophone of deer and "rouge" meaning red in French. Danielle had previously been

Aruru (goddess) (2,135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of amniotic fluid," which is now considered a mistranslation, as the homophone arūru means "outlet of a canal," not "outflow." Gonzalo Rubio states that

Marjorie Allen Seiffert (686 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

women's lives. She chose the name Cypher in part because it was a near homophone with her own last name. The Cypher poems were a hit with the editors of

Dear Rouge (2,454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the name of Danielle's home town, Red Deer, Alberta, "dear" being a homophone of deer and "rouge" meaning red in French. Danielle had previously been

Cockney (9,724 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Richard Whiteing spelled "Hyde Park" as Hy' Par'. Like and light can be homophones. "Clapham" can be said as Cla'am (i.e., [ˈkl̥ɛʔm̩]). /t/ may also be flapped

Chiungtze C. Tsen (1,591 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hanyu Fangyin Zihui contain pronunciations of 曾 and 之, but not 炯 nor its homophone 迥. The pronunciation of 炯 is inferred from the article. To verify. According

Florence Foster Jenkins (4,363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Muse Surmounted: Florence Foster Jenkins and Eleven of Her Rivals (Homophone Records, OCLC 58399998, 2004) includes one Jenkins song, "Valse Caressante"

Wing-banded wren (1,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

meaning "small" and kerkos meaning "tail". The specific epithet bambla is a homophone from the French bande blanche meaning "white band". Three subspecies are

Qin Shi Huang (10,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his elevation as emperor, both Zheng's personal name 政 and possibly its homophone 正 became taboo. The First Emperor also arrogated the first-person Chinese

Marraco (1,691 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(October–December 1948). "Hispano-Arabic marrano and Its Hispano-Latin Homophone". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 68 (4): 479. doi:10.2307/595941

TNT Sports (United Kingdom) (7,776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

rotated "T" letters as a visual motif, and using the "N" from the logo as a homophone of "and" to join pairs of concepts (such as fixtures). In the UK, TNT

Media activism (4,984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

coined as Maorilyn Maoroe, which in the image is juxtaposed next to a homophone for profanity. "Maorilyn Maoroe" was an opponent to the societal River

Homi (tool) (2,113 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

called "Seoul Town Road". In the context of hip-hop, homi is also a homophone of homie, usually a term for a friend used often in hip-hop. BTS confirmed

Yangtze (11,646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

phono-semantic compound origin, combining the water radical 氵 with the homophone 工 (now pronounced gōng, but *kˤoŋ in Old Chinese). Kong was probably a

Okurigana (4,736 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the する, which is a separate word, inflects. Do not confuse 上る with its homophone, 登る (both pronounced "noboru"). One meaning of 登る is "to climb (especially

List of fictional cats in animation (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from his chocolate-colored nose. Claude Cat Looney Tunes (a pun on the homophone "clawed cat") had his origins in several other cat characters used by

Whopper (8,086 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

now its time has passed." The Russian word for poppy is "mak" (мак), a homophone for Mac—a major nickname for McDonald's in Russia. However, major Russian

Speed of Life (TV series) (4,635 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

later date and start to think about marriage. Mark Ma as Yeung Ming (揚名;homophone to "Mat Yeung's name 楊明" ) A Sergeant in the AI team. Sze Ma Sir's subordinate

María Luisa Anido (1,176 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

piece respects its characteristic rhythm, but instead of flowing in a homophone way or through parallel thirds, sixths or tenths, it is built as a chorale

Sally the Witch (1,586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

therefore princess of the Magic Kingdom. Yumeno means "dream field" but is a homophone to "a dream of" in Japanese; her full name, spoken in the Japanese name

Subvocalization (3,728 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

comprehension. For example, subvocalization is not used in the making of homophone judgements but is used more for the comprehension of sentences and even

Pseudolaw (6,660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the fact that some nautical-sounding terms such as "dock" or "birth (homophone with "berth") – certificate" are commonly used by English-language judiciaries

Wang Zhaozuo (896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Zhu Cheng (朱誠 — not the same character as "Cheng" (成) in Chengde, but a homophone.) At some point, Wang Zhaozuo and Princess Puning must have returned to

Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller (654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were published in 2004 on a compact disc entitled "The Muse Surmounted" (Homophone 1001), the booklet for which contains a biography of Bates-Batcheller

Himno Nacional Mexicano (3,087 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for real and fictional people and as a common name (masiosare or the homophone maciosare) for the anthem itself or for a threat against the country.

Second Sino-Japanese War (21,881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and because "nine" is a homophone of the word for "long lasting" in Chinese (to suggest that the peace won

Di Renjie (3,760 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Di responded: Wu [(the second character of "parrot," yingwu (鸚鵡)) is a homophone of Your Imperial Majesty's family name. The two wings are your two sons

Non-native pronunciations of English (5,464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pronounced [i] (ship and sheep are homophones); /æ/ (in certain words) and /ɛ/ are pronounced [ɛ] (bad and bed are homophones); /æ/ (in certain words), /ʌ/

Darlene (artist) (1,779 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Greyhawk, Gygax changed the name of the castle to Castle Zagyg - the reverse homophone of his own name. Gygax also changed the name of the nearby city to "Yggsburgh"

Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller (654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were published in 2004 on a compact disc entitled "The Muse Surmounted" (Homophone 1001), the booklet for which contains a biography of Bates-Batcheller

Intel (23,992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deciding on a name, Moore and Noyce quickly rejected "Moore Noyce", near homophone for "more noise" – an ill-suited name for an electronics company, since

Hua Hill (1,596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

irrespective of their size. The name Huà Shān (华山) as well as the near homophone Huā Shān (花山, literally "Flower Mountain") are both common names in Chinese

Sinicization (8,744 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Manchu for wolf," had chosen Lang as their surname because it was a homophone for the Chinese word for "wolf.") Edward J. M. Rhoads (2001). Manchus

Japanese grammar (13,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"to cut") belongs to ra-column 5-row conjugation (ラ行五段活用), whereas its homophone kiru (着る, "to wear") belongs to ka-column i-row conjugation (カ行上一段活用)

Prince of Orange (5,298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Guillaume: "Guillaume au Court-nez" (William the Short-Nosed) or its homophone "Guillaume au Cornet" (William the Horn). The chanson appears to incorporate

List of baseball team nicknames (5,589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Birds – Reference to male orioles, which are orange birds. The Oreos – Homophone of "Orioles", used particularly among older fans. The BoSox – Combination

Ah Moon (934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

their producer and reformed with a new name, Me N Ma Girls, which is a homophone for Myanmar girls. Me N Ma Girls released a new album, Mingalabar (Welcome)

Vietnamese people (15,585 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Middle Chinese was first written using the logograph "戉" for an axe (a homophone), in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (c

Blanche Yurka (2,402 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

extended her a contract, at which time she changed her surname to "Yurka", a homophone of her true surname. Beginning with The Warrens of Virginia (1907), Blanche

Tao Lin (4,544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reading of Leave Society, I did not know what, if anything, to make of the homophone "leaf" and "leave." On the second reading, when I was better accustomed

Anhangá (1,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that black hunters knew him in Brazil, assimilating it to the almost homophone words of their language. Anhangá is present in the indianist works of

Fei Xiang (1,697 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Phillips, "Fei" and choosing Xiang as his given name, taken from a homophone of the Chinese for "soaring" or "taking flight" (飛翔; fēi xiáng). Other

Malaysian cuisine (22,852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

since "fish " is commonly conflated with its homophone "abundance, Yúshēng is interpreted as a homophone for Yúshēng meaning an increase in abundance

Sprint Corporation (10,628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

former ticker symbol (FON stood for "Fiber Optic Network", but was also a homophone of the word "phone"). This was challenged in many lawsuits by Sprint PCS

Tabby's Star (8,389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in real-time on the unique star. The 2% dip event was named "Elsie" (a homophone of "LC", in reference to Las Cumbres and light curve). Initial spectra

Datsun Truck (6,676 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The 420 designation, which was next in sequence, was skipped as it is a homophone for the Japanese word for "rudeness" or "impolite" (see Japanese wordplay)

Kikuichō (732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ushigome Kagurazaka. Retrieved 2020-12-25. Explanatory note: Kiku (喜久) is a homophone of "chrysanthemum" in Japanese, i (井) means "well", and chō (町) means

Wowkie Zhang (1,209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(2021): 153–162. doi:10.1515/ijsl-2020-0103. ""Neìgè" in Chinese: The unlikely story of a homophone aggression". 12 January 2021. Wowkie Zhang at IMDb

Places in Harry Potter (10,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

book store and a surveyors' storefront. The name Diagon Alley is a near homophone of the word "diagonally", which is used as a plot device when Harry mispronounces

Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters (1,968 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

secrets. The old name for Nagano, Shinshū (信州, "Shin[ano] Province"), is a homophone of Shinshū (神州, "land of the gods"), and was therefore considered auspicious

Quantum Bayesianism (8,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

but distancing it from Bayesianism more broadly. As this neologism is a homophone of Cubism the art movement, it has motivated conceptual comparisons between

Sima Zhao (7,522 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

held special significance to the Sima family. Cao Huang's name, being a homophone of “Huang” (yellow), which must have been frequently used in daily life

List of characters in the Family Guy franchise (17,923 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hitler; when the townspeople greet her with "Hi, Elle Hitler", it is a homophone of "Heil Hitler". Dr. Elmer Hartman (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is the

Daomu Biji (1,782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

setting off the series of events to come in later books. His name is a homophone with "innocent" (无邪, also pronounced "Wu Xie"), indicating his gullible

Oroonoko (8,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name of Caesar. Alternatively, it could be argued that "Oroonoko" is a homophone for the Orinoco River, along which the colony of Surinam was established

Pronunciation of English ⟨th⟩ (4,878 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[v] respectively. For small children, fought and thought are therefore homophones. As British and American children begin school at age four and five respectively

Virtues of Harmony II (2,140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the owner of a HK style cafe which called "Tung Mut Yuen"(the Cantonese homophone of "Zoo"), Chi was a police officer in her youth and after marrying the

Volley fire (6,080 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

approach. Here he is referring to the word for "crossbow" nu which is also a homophone for the word for fury, nu. The encyclopedic text known as the Tongdian

Jacques Durand (2,004 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his house. These engines were sold under the name "Jidé", which was a homophone of his initials "JD" in French. The Jidé line was succeeded by the Vega

Baiyue (10,568 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chinese *ɢʷat. It was first written using the pictograph 戉 for an axe (a homophone), in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (c

Apples (card game) (1,163 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

players are trying to collect "pairs" of cards. The word "pairs" is a homophone of "pears" which is associated with the word "apples" in a common idiom

Badiucao (1,651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mandarin term for mouthpiece (喉舌) equates to 'throat and tongue' and is a homophone for monkey snake (猴蛇). In 2018, an art show about Badiucao was planned

Lin Biao (10,909 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Project 571". In Chinese, "5-7-1" (Chinese: 五七一; pinyin: wǔqīyī), is a homophone for "armed uprising" (Chinese: 武起义; pinyin: wǔqǐyì). After realizing it

Spanish phonology (11,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

also be used to differentiate homophones, such as mi (my), and mí (me). In such cases, the accent is used on the homophone that normally receives greater

Đại Việt (12,434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Middle Chinese was first written using the logograph "戉" for an axe (a homophone) in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200

Swedish profanity (2,728 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rather mild insult meaning "stupid". This word is neuter gender, unlike homophone nöt "nut" (with which it is often associated synchronically). Thus in

Guandan (1,451 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(掼蛋) literally mean "Throwing Eggs", however the second character is a homophone of the character 弹, meaning bomb, which is also suggested as an origin

Nguyễn dynasty (19,534 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Middle Chinese was first written using the logograph "戉" for an axe (a homophone), in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty (c

Miami Showband killings (9,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cause, supposedly choosing Buskhill as the site due to the name being a homophone of "bus kill". Griffin goes on to add that the bogus checkpoint was set

List of Potawatomi ethnonyms (1,865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

I, 48, 1761. This is a shortening of Bodéwadmi, which happens to be a homophone to the French word for "lice" (poux). Poes – Long, Voy. and Trav., 144

Japanese phonology (14,801 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

they seem to be pronounced in one syllable as a diphthong, making it a homophone with 敗者, haisha, 'defeated person'. Likewise, the morpheme /i/ used as

Chinese garden (11,625 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trees were the symbol of justice and wisdom. The word 'pear' was also a homophone for 'quit' or separate,' and it was considered bad luck to cut a pear

Barter Concert (Hong Kong) (787 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

even challenged 夠薑就用器官換音樂 (Exchange organ for music if you dare, the homophone for ginger). Some of the ginger was distributed to students for planting

Piana degli Albanesi (6,776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

word meaning 'homeland' or 'capital', deriving probably from the Greek homophone Chòra, χώρα, a typical word of Tosk and Arvanite Albanians of Greece.

Italian grammar (8,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"cui" is avoided due to phonetic ambiguities with words such as "qua" (homophone to "cu'ha"). Apocopation is not mandatory. Ci is graphically apocopated

Tim Book Two: Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco (1,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Book Two" sarcastically, not expecting to take him seriously. It was a homophone of Timbuktu, a city in Mali, which Burgess said "always been used to suggest

Ṣa (Indic) (2,766 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

appropriate. In ancient and medieval Nepali however, ष was sometimes a homophone of ख, pronounced [kʰ]. Like all Indic scripts, Devanagari uses vowel marks

Ribbon (EP) (1,385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

"ribbon" and "reborn," which are written as 리본 (ribon) in Korean, and thus homophone. It contains a message of hope, and BamBam's wish to better himself. Ribbon

Women in ancient and imperial China (9,342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

referred to as "fierce women" (烈女, liènǚ, which is distinct from the homophone term "exemplary women" 列女, liènǚ), with the word "fierce" (烈) carrying

Shimanaka incident (1,735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sayoku) by replacing the Chinese character for "wing" (翼, yoku) with a homophone meaning "greed" (欲, yoku). Nevertheless, Japanese right-wing ultranationalists

Jiaolong (6,743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

dictionary, but instead of a white "goiter (ying)" being found on its neck, a homophone noun of a different meaning is described, rendered "white necklace" around

History of crossbows (9,763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

approach. Here he is referring to the word for "crossbow" nu which is also a homophone for the word for fury, nu. The encyclopedic text known as the Tongdian

List of Negima! Magister Negi Magi characters (15,233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such as developing feelings for Negi. Her last name, "hakase", is a homophone of 博士, which means "doctor" (i.e., a person who has obtained a doctorate)

Latin obscenity (15,210 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

twice". A similar euphemism occurs in French: the avoidance of qu'on, homophone to con (cunt), by the insertion of a superfluous letter: que l'on. Horace

Daddy Dearest (2016 TV series) (2,245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

him and nicknames him Bat-chi-lo (白痴佬; "idiot" in English and Chinese homophone to the pronunciation of his name). Due to Tse-keung always being absent

List of Microsoft codenames (6,189 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stimpy, characters of an American animated television series. "Wren", a homophone of "Ren", is a reference to Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul's

Tama Drums (607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Tama brand. Tama was the name of the owner's wife, and is also a homophone with the Japanese word meaning "jewel". "Star" continues to be used in

Nashiko Momotsuki (2,604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the title was both meant as an expression of her "immaturity" and a homophone of "tangerine" (mikan), inspired by the words "peach" (桃, momo) and "pear"

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (5,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

family register), Tazaki Tsukuru) The protagonist, his given name is a homophone for "To make or build" and his family name doesn't contain any color symbol