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Re: [76attendees] Why the name Hiroshim(広島) - 'wide island'?

Tina TSOU <tena@huawei.com> Fri, 06 November 2009 09:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [76attendees] Why the name Hiroshim(広島) - 'wide island'?
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I only know there is a Hong Kong movie name "the love of Hiroshima".  
IETF-76 is my first hit on Hiroshima.

Canton (广州), a Chinese city, means "wide state". It is not as big  
as Beijing, New York.

So, "wide xxx" is perhaps just a nice name:)


B. R.
Tina
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On Nov 6, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:

> Look at the map!
>
> There are lots of islands and lots of rivers in a delta.
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> Ole
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> Ole J. Jacobsen
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> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Dae Young KIM wrote:
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>> Is there a big island nearby? Or is Hiroshima itself an island?
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
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>> DY
>> http://cnu.kr/~dykim
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