Monday, June 13, 2011

Eating in the Wild

Sometimes - well maybe a lot of the times - you look at a sentence in Chinese. You may know each character in the sentence but you still don't know what the sentence means.

I found this: 野餐

野 [yě] wild
餐 [cān] a meal, or to eat

What do you think this means? Eat in the wild? You have a wild game meat meal? You are surprised by some kind of strange meal you hunted? No, none of the above.

This means picnic. Strange, but I guess I can understand why these two characters are together.

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