Sunday, November 11, 2012

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Friday, March 16, 2012

bulldozer
tui1 tu3 ji1
push dirt machine
 
excavator/digger/backhoe
wa1 tu3 ji
dig dirt machine

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

raspberry
shan1 mei2
literally:  mountain berry
 
blackberry
hei1 mei2
literally:  black berry
but when you put in the chinese for blackberry in a search engine you get the blackberry phones.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

pistachio
kai1 xin1 guo3
literally:  well this one is interesting.  for the 3 characters kai1 xin1 guo3 it literally means "open heart fruit."  you have to open the fruit to eat the heart. 
 
but the characters kai1 xin1 together mean happy.  so it could also mean "happy fruit."  becuase, really, who isn't happy after having a few pistachios?  :o)
beets
tian2 cai4
literally:  sweet vegetable

Tuesday, January 31, 2012