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Mind the Gap Saturday: Forums East and West

Mind the Gap Saturday is a feature every Saturday where Blognation China tells its readership the differences - the gap - in the tech, mobile and enterprise worlds between China and the Western world. We continue our journey through the Chinese forum world, diving deep this time into a few phrases you might encounter on your …

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Help me understand

For the benefit of those of us who don't use Chinese keyboards, how do you actually write the ideograms? And text on a 12-button mobile keypad?? Perhaps you could let us know in a future article.

(For those who haven't thought about it, try and work out how a Chinese dictionary or phone directory allows you to look up a character or name!)

MM, Firefly fans!

Yup. MM = mei mei, "little sister", just how Simon Tam used to refer to River, his little sister. See also the Firefly Chinese Pinyinary...

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