Chinese Tuesdays: Noodles
Sitting on a bus in Wenzhou last month, I saw a noodle restaurant with a creative sign. The character for noodles, 面 (miàn), was written to make it look like a bowl of noodles with chopsticks. I might have been fooled into thinking 面 was a pictograph, if the traditional character wasn't 麵, with 麦 (mài, wheat) on the left for meaning and 面 on the right for pronunciation.
Here's another creative rendering of 面 I found:
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from Sam Duncan's blog
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Tue 11 March 2014 in
