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The movie introduced several Chinese words to the world, such as Oogway, Shifu, Wushi Finger, etc. Check to see the original meanings in Chinese.

Metabetable at Mark’s China Blog posts some interesting examples of the literal meaning of some Chinese words and I thought to add more to that while correcting some of his earlier translations.

A picture is perhaps worth a thousand words, but each of these audio snapshots is worth at least a thousand pictures.

A photo is said to make a thousand words. A thousand words with a photo makes the background. The suggestions of an Urghur woman in China's prosperous East Coast charging 10 kuai for something and being arrested for seeming to rip someone off.

The opening salvo in a debate over the romanization of road signs. A scrappy debate in the comments, too.

"Writing Chinese words with the Latin character set and neglecting tone marks is the equivalent of writing English words with dots in place of the vowels."

Tired of Internet censorship? Is your site being blocked for having "sensitive" words? Then Censortive is for you. Use this plugin to replace those pesky words with their graphic equivalent, making them invisible to censorship robots.

The link in this post goes to the main plugin page, but you can read more about it at my blog.

Microsoft was already generating criticism last summer, not long after the launch of its portal, because MSN Spaces users frequently experienced restrictions when they used certain words prohibited by the government. Until the beginning of this year, Zhao -- also known by his blog pseudonym Michael Anti -- was able to skirt complete censorship by Microsoft. Zhao told AsiaMedia on July 19, 2005 that he was able to avoid online censorship by knowing and avoiding using sensitive words.

Ken Carroll, Founder of ChinesePod, introduces us to his company's new media approach to learning Chinese and draws upon his 13 years of China experience to lend some advice to newcomers to China's business landscape.

Whew, Chinese girls can be pretty clever in the counterattack.