{"id":237,"date":"2009-04-25T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T05:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2009-04-26T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T17:00:13","slug":"video-%e4%b8%89%e5%85%ab%e7%ba%bf-38th-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/2009\/04\/video-%e4%b8%89%e5%85%ab%e7%ba%bf-38th-parallel\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | \u4e09\u516b\u7ebf (38th Parallel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few numbers in China that have additional meanings.<\/p>\n<p>In the northern parts of China 250 (\u4e8c\u767e\u4e94) is used to refer to someone as not so smart.   This probably stems from the fact that in order to say 250 in Chinese, you don&#8217;t say er bai wu, you say liang bai wu, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/250_(number)\">Wikipedia<\/a> says different, and who am I to argue.<br \/>\n[Apparently I&#8217;m wrong again \ud83d\ude42   after chatting to some of my friends, they say wiki is right, and to call someone 500 (\u4e94\u767e) is even worse &#8211; you&#8217;re twice as \u4e8c\u767e\u4e94\uff01  There was talk about that when \u4f0d\u4f70 (the Taiwanese Singer) was big here.]<\/p>\n<p>For example 56 (\u4e94\u516d) sounds like \u65e0\u804a (bored) in standard mandarin, and I lost a conversation about the origins of the video site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.56.com\">56.com<\/a> name to someone on Twitter.<br \/>\n55 also has a meaning which roughly corresponds to an affirmative exclamation of excitement eg  yeah! woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>38 (\u4e09\u516b) is used as a derogatory term for women, and typically means bitch.<br \/>\nThis stems from March 8th  (3\u67088\u65e5) being womens day (\u4e09\u516b\u8282).<\/p>\n<p>\u4e09\u516b\u7ebf on the other hand is the <a href=\"http:\/\/liurl.cn\/1c5\">38th Parallel<\/a>, which is the dividing line between North and South Korea for those that didn&#8217;t know that.<\/p>\n<p>In school however, the \u4e09\u516b\u7ebf was the dividing line on the desk (although this did have its origins in the North \/ South Korean divider line.<\/p>\n<p>There is a an amazingly well done video cartoon below which recalls the \u4e09\u516b\u7ebf to illustrate primary school life.  Unfortunately no subtitles, but its eminently watchable without.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"400\" data=\"http:\/\/www.tudou.com\/v\/CrL4L-jcrnw\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.tudou.com\/v\/CrL4L-jcrnw\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More video&#8217;s here over at Kuanger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuanger.com\/\">http:\/\/www.kuanger.com\/<\/a>, or do a <a href=\"http:\/\/so.tudou.com\/isearch\/%E5%93%90%E5%93%90%E5%93%90\/\">Tudou search for \u54d0\u54d0\u54d0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, but not least is 88 &#8211; this sounds like bye bye, so is often used in online chat when you sign out.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed the lesson, and 88!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few numbers in China that have additional meanings. In the northern parts of China 250 (\u4e8c\u767e\u4e94) is used to refer to someone as not so smart. This probably stems from the fact that in order to say 250 in Chinese, you don&#8217;t say er bai wu, you say liang bai wu, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[105,106,104],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-hunting","tag-tudou","tag-video","tag-104"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computersolutions.cn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}