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Originally Posted by samokan
Mobile phone in Japanese is 携帯電話 ( keitai denwa )
手 - this means hands right ?
机 - this means desk right ?
how did a hand and a desk became a mobile phone ?  |
机 means machine. Since Japanses adopted some of the simplified characters, but not all (for example 電話 instead of 电话),you might recognize 机's traditional form 機. 机 gets used in all kinds of words - like 飞机. 飞 means to fly, so a "flying machine" is an airplane. Chinese is funny that way.
This has really gotten off-topic, hasn't it? Haha.