OOP : Re: Meaning of Cho's name

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No: HPFGUIDX 63473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Narilsa" <reincineir at y...> 
wrote:
> > > Brooke, in part:
> > > > I recently went online to find out
> > > > what "cho chang" means in the 
> > > > asian languages.  here's what i
> > > > found:  
> > > > 
> > > > "cho-cho" means butterfly in
> > > > Japanese (I have this on authority - 
> > > > my friend from Tokyo told me)  I
> > > > believe that it also means butterfly 
> > > > in Chinese, although they just say
> > > > "cho"
> > > 
> > > Yours truly:
> > > > Would you mind sharing where you got 
> > > > some of the translations?  I keep 
> > > > reading the "butterfly" translation in 
> > > > this fandom but the everyday word for 
> > > > butterflies in Chinese is not 
> > > > pronounced anything like c-h-o.  Can 
> > > > you (or anyone really) point me?
> 
> The word I call butterfly  by in Chinese doesn't sound a bit like 
> Cho either, so this is interesting. However, you wouldn't be able 
> to be completely sure what Cho's name means unless you got the 
> exact Chinese characters for her name. Chinese has different 
> inflections; one sound, such as Cho, could have multiple meanings 
> depending on how you pronounce it. 

The official Chinese translation (PRC) has it as "Qiu ZHANG" (Autumn 
Stretch/Spread), or "Cho Chang" in Wade-Giles. 


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