Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Zoology

Here are the translations of several animal names in Chinese. Let's see if you can figure out what they mean:


A striped horse (please tell me you can guess this one)
B white bear (this one too)
C river horse
D cat-headed eagle
E bear-cat
F sea elephant
G dragon shrimp
H scary dragon
I pocket mouse
J heavenly goose



I'm putting the names backwards, to prevent any inadvertant cheating.
A arbez
B raeb ralop (If you missed the first two, please just stop here)
C oppih
D lwo
E adnap
F surlaw
G retsbol
H ruasonid
I ooragnak
J naws

Okay, other Chinese speakers, which ones did I forget?

3 comments:

Merry said...

I wish my Chinese were better and I could add to this. But I like your list!

LisaBC said...

My favorite is pocket mouse! :-)

Sara Lee said...

I got 6 right! I liked pocket mouse too. I was thinking of something tinnier than a mouse. The Panda one was neat too.

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