Jun 17, 2009 19:47
14 yrs ago
Chinese term
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牡羊座的卡咪
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I'm afraid that this is all the context I have. I know that 牡羊座 is Aries but the 卡咪 is baffling me.
Any help is much appreciated!
Any help is much appreciated!
Proposed translations
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| 3 +1 | Kami who is an Aries |
Erisu
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| 3 +1 | man, god |
Mandy Tsai
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Kami who is an Aries
I think in this case 卡咪 is likely to be a name (feels like a pet or nickname). Although, I can't be sure since there was not much context. But, 卡咪 is not a word to my knowledge and searching around on the web also yielded no result.
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Comment: "Thank you! I got a confirmation from the client and it is a nickname."
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Mandy Tsai
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man, god
I surfed around the net, read some postings, and got the feeling that "卡咪" probably comes from Japanese, as "かみ kami" in old japanese, meaning "god, 神". In another posting, a couple was thinking about adopting a cat. The guy picked the name 卡咪（かみ) for a male cat, and 烏咪（うみ) if it is a female cat.
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Sze Man Leung, MCIL, DipTrans (IoLET)
: Mandy's explanation of "god" sounds reasonable and that Taiwanese might tend to use words from Japanese direct.
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