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Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni, Aoyung Olympics!

Posted on November 4, 2007. Filed under: Beijing, China, Olympics, child naming, odd names | Tags: , , , , , |

That’s not gibberish, but I am learning Chinese! The Beijing Olympics next year actually. The phrase should translate roughly to ‘Beijing welcomes you, Olympics Olympics’.
Why twice named? Well, it seems that the Chinese love a name doubled for emphasis or something:
[...Most of the 3,491 people with the name "Aoyun," meaning Olympics, were born around the [...]

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