• Lightfire228@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    I vaguely remember from Japanese class that China’s name means “middle country”

    But i dunno about that “go” character specifically. It might have a different meaning in this context?

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      Yeah, it does, and it’s written the same in Chinese. I guess if 中国 is technically considered a loanword, then 中国語 is consistent with ドイツ語 and フランス語.