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do you ever think about how セロ is a kun'yomi of 零. native japanese reading (from french)

excuse me that was meant to say ゼロ

@hikari hah, you are aware of all the wasei-kango back-borrowed into chinese, right?

@r @hikari we love these surprise connections between language! there's so much more sharing of words than we used to expect

@ireneista @hikari there are a lot of really interesting quirks once you start digging

something we just found out about recently is the non-sinitic substratum that probably exists in Yue language (incl. Cantonese)

啱 "correct" and 焫 "to burn" are likely of non-sinitic origin

@r i was taught at university that 科学 is such an example, for obvious historical reasons