{"id":7062,"date":"2014-09-24T06:59:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T06:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2014-09-24T07:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T07:27:59","slug":"chinese-breaking-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/chinese-breaking-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese in Breaking Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/jesse-372x600.jpg\" alt=\"Jesse Pinkman Chinese characters\" width=\"300\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/jesse-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/jesse-372x600.jpg 372w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/jesse.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>While watching Breaking Bad the other day with my girlfriend we caught sight of something which we love to come across: Chinese characters. This is something you see from time to time in American television and movies, and almost without exception, it is inaccurate or completely nonsensical Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the characters appeared on Jesse Pinkman&#8217;s t-shirt. From top to bottom they read: ???<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what these characters mean:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>?: Star, or satellite<\/li>\n<li>?:\u00a0Level, grade or rank<\/li>\n<li>?: South<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Together they mean nothing because on the shirt they are written backwards. The correct order is ???, which means South Star (the precise astrological terminology is\u00a0Polaris Australis &#8211; here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/baike.baidu.com\/subview\/966850\/8673707.htm\" target=\"_blank\">description in Chinese<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>When trying to figure out what the nonsensical phrase on the shirt means, we searched for it on Baidu, China&#8217;s Google. The first result was <a href=\"http:\/\/tieba.baidu.com\/p\/2847597649?pn=0&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> on ????, one of the most popular\u00a0message boards on the Chinese internet, which\u00a0is below, translated:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thread title: Oh my god! Guys, look at what I found. Made in China?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Original post: I searched for this clothing brand and couldn&#8217;t find anything &#8211; is this made in Shenzhen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reply #1: It&#8217;s obviously wrong. Foreigners don&#8217;t understand Chinese, it&#8217;s written backwards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reply #2: Foreigners seem to really like Chinese characters, but they don&#8217;t understand them. 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