• practice, its founder Mr. Li Hongzhi, and a wide assortment of homonyms are among the most censored terms on the Chinese internet. Any mention in state-run media...
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  • British slang verb twat, meaning 'to hit, whack', is probably an unrelated homonym of onomatopoeic origin. Robert Browning famously misused the term in his...
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  • widely used as a moniker for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un; the term was censored in China after North Korean officials had lodged an official complaint...
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    her use of the word "queynte" to describe both domestic duties (from the homonym "quaint") and genitalia ("queynte" being the root of "cunt", a vulgar English...
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    mortars. Nearby was the communication transit station nicknamed "04" (a homonym of 'You die' in Chinese pronunciation) on a hill with a 30°-angle blind...
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  • question of humanity!" Throughout the course of the song, Dao uses several homonyms, metaphors, and visual puns with Chinese characters, such as using the...
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  • the character guan (Chinese: 冠; pinyin: guān; lit. 'crown/hat/cap') is a homonym another Chinese character pronounced guan (Chinese: 官; pinyin: guān; lit...
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    nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but...
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    Zedong in 1971, was named by Lin Biao's son Lin Liguo as a play on its near-homonym of "armed uprising" (武裝起義; wǔzhuāng qǐyì or 武起義; wǔ qǐyì).[citation needed]...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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