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Friday, December 10, 2004

Green Rice



someone who meant to tattoo 精 (jing1) "essence, semen, spirit " on his elbows, but by splitting the character into the two radicals 米 (mi3) "uncooked rice" and 青 (qing1 or jing1) "blue, green, black; young", managed instead to display "green rice".

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