# Medical Chinese **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-chinese/91228 "2001-11-03T00:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-chinese/91228/1 "2001-11-03T00:10:55Z")
[http://www.cypdirect.com/beijing/medical.html](http://www.cypdirect.com/beijing/medical.html) OMIGOD! I so want the ideograms for pussy dishcharge on a tee shirt! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-chinese/91228/2 "2001-11-03T09:11:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lee \* > OMIGOD! I so want the ideograms for pussy dishcharge on a tee shirt! How much would you pay me? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-chinese/91228/3 "2001-11-03T09:17:19Z")
i do not think that means what you think it means… in case you misunderstood that, it’s “pus-like discharge”, like what you get when you squeeze a zit. “Ä“  î ·Ö ÃÚ Îï” is literally “thick oozing stuff”… of course, you _could_ pass it off as what you probably _thought_ it meant… 😃 _starts making tee-shirt printing machine_ ps. can anyone read the characters i posted or is it just a bunch of gibberish? ( **china guy** , don’t even open your mouth) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-chinese/91228/4 "2001-11-03T15:40:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cougarfang \* > \*\*ps. can anyone read the characters i posted or is it just a bunch of gibberish? ( **china guy** , don’t even open your mouth) \*\* What??? Come on, I speak Chinese as a second language. But your characters show up fine on my PC. The site is a little wierd. Some overseas Chinese thing and I’m not sure where it is linked to. For example, it has CNN as a news source, although CNN is blocked in China. The characters are in long form Chinese, which are not used in the mainland. Finally, the terms are translated out of a dictionary and not by someone that actually speaks English. ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-chinese/91228/5 "2001-11-05T06:19:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cougarfang \* > \*\*i do not think that means what you think it means… > > in case you misunderstood that, it’s “pus-like discharge”, like what you get when you squeeze a zit. “Ä“  î ·Ö ÃÚ Îï” is literally “thick oozing stuff”… > \*\* Yes, that is exactly what **lee** thinks it means. Trust me on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-chinese/91228/6 "2001-11-05T09:04:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by China Guy \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Cougarfang \* > > \*\*ps. can anyone read the characters i posted or is it just a bunch of gibberish? ( **china guy** , don’t even open your mouth) \*\* > > What??? Come on, I speak Chinese as a second language. But your characters show up fine on my PC. > > The site is a little wierd. Some overseas Chinese thing and I’m not sure where it is linked to. For example, it has CNN as a news source, although CNN is blocked in China. The characters are in long form Chinese, which are not used in the mainland. Finally, the terms are translated out of a dictionary and not by someone that actually speaks English. \*\* I TOLD YOU NOT TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH! 😃 long form chinese is probably the only kind of chinese used in taiwan, which makes me think that’s a taiwanese site, as well as the CNN reference. anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-chinese/91228/7 "2001-11-05T21:11:16Z")
I still wanna know if **lee** will pay me for putting that on a T-shirt… Make me an offer. 🙂