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I am the fellow who made the comment about the shoe making a plaintive gesture. I'm glad you appreciated it. I'm curious about your screen name. Are you really Chinese? --[[User:RustyMcloon|Rusty Mcloon]] 02:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 
I am the fellow who made the comment about the shoe making a plaintive gesture. I'm glad you appreciated it. I'm curious about your screen name. Are you really Chinese? --[[User:RustyMcloon|Rusty Mcloon]] 02:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
* Nope, I stole it from an online story about ten years ago :) Just out of curiosity, what does it mean? I've been using this name for a decade and never actually found out. I remember hearing that it has multiple meanings due to the way the Chinese alphabet is transcribed?
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* Nope, I stole it from an online story about ten years ago :) Just out of curiosity, what does it mean? I've been using this name for a decade and never actually found out. I remember hearing that it has multiple meanings due to the way the Chinese alphabet is transcribed? --[[User:FangXianfu|FangXianfu]] 05:29, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
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* I am an American teaching in Shenyang, China. I was just wondering if there were any Chinese who got into DF.
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**Fang is probably the family name [http://hk.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?wdrst=0&popup=1&wdqchid=%E6%96%B9 方]. It can mean "square / quadrilateral / power (such as cube 立方) / classifier for square things / upright / honest / fair and square," etc.
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**It's hard to say the meaning of the given name, Xianfu, without knowing the characters. You can do your own research on the [http://hk.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php MDBG Chinese-English dictionary site]. Xianfu together, depending on the character and tone, can mean "late father" (先父). --[[User:RustyMcloon|Rusty Mcloon]] 04:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

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I am the fellow who made the comment about the shoe making a plaintive gesture. I'm glad you appreciated it. I'm curious about your screen name. Are you really Chinese? --Rusty Mcloon 02:41, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

  • Nope, I stole it from an online story about ten years ago :) Just out of curiosity, what does it mean? I've been using this name for a decade and never actually found out. I remember hearing that it has multiple meanings due to the way the Chinese alphabet is transcribed? --FangXianfu 05:29, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
  • I am an American teaching in Shenyang, China. I was just wondering if there were any Chinese who got into DF.
    • Fang is probably the family name . It can mean "square / quadrilateral / power (such as cube 立方) / classifier for square things / upright / honest / fair and square," etc.
    • It's hard to say the meaning of the given name, Xianfu, without knowing the characters. You can do your own research on the MDBG Chinese-English dictionary site. Xianfu together, depending on the character and tone, can mean "late father" (先父). --Rusty Mcloon 04:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)