Sha (WAS Re: M&D dust-jacket esoterica)

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Mon Jul 14 21:35:28 CDT 1997


I forgot to add that another character pronouced as "sha" in the standard
putonghua (Mandarin) dialect means "stupid."

At 6:31 PM 7/14/97, Doug Millison wrote:
>I'm no feng shui expert, so I don't know which hanzi character is used for
>this "sha" (Chinese uses many homophones, identical pronounciations but
>written with different characters) but one meaning of "sha" is to murder or
>kill.
>


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