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  • awth13 [fae/faer, comrade/them]
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    8 hours ago

    That’s how Chinese does loanwords in general, e.g., 夹克 jiākè jacket, 咖啡 kāfēi coffee, 布尔乔亚 bùěrqiáoyà bourgeoisie. None of these words have characters in them that align with what the word itself means, they just sound similar to the borrowed word.