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![stanfordNYC Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::722590431234691073.png) Bernard Stanford ✡︎ [@stanfordNYC](/creator/twitter/stanfordNYC) on x 4756 followers
Created: 2025-07-16 14:24:55 UTC

A fun facet of Chinese is that many city names are semantically legible as normal text instead of just as names. 

Shanghai = On the Sea
Beijing = North Capital
Shenzhen = Deep Ditch
Fuzhou = Happy City 

Americans are used to names just being names. What the heck is a "York"?


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