Something About China.... In Spanish

[DA]

ok... I was studying for a spanish test I have and I look in the glossary I saw that china in spanish means orange. If your catching on, orange is a old character in the old touhou games(1-5) and China is Meiling. I find it funny. (not saying anything important just something funny)

Edit:Whoops wrong forum.

[Forte Blackadder]

Fun Facts

    * As she bears resemblance to Hong Meiling, she may have been part of the inspiration for Meiling.

ZUN is god. Confirmed.

[MysTeariousYukari]

Isn't Chen Japanese for Orange as well? ZUN truly is a really freaking smart guy.

[Serela]

But Chen is also Orange in Chinese... which is China, which is Meiling, which is Orange in Spanish, who is similar to Orange, which AUUUUGH MY BRAIN

[orinrin]

Mind = Slightly Blown

[DracoOmega]

Hmmm... oddly enough, I can't seem to find this meaning in any dictionaries I check. In Spanish, china appears to mean either the country, the porcelain, or a small stone. In any event, the usual word for orange in Spanish appears to be naranja. Although such a connection would be interesting.

[DA]

Hmmm... oddly enough, I can't seem to find this meaning in any dictionaries I check. In Spanish, china appears to mean either the country, the porcelain, or a small stone. In any event, the usual word for orange in Spanish appears to be naranja. Although such a connection would be interesting.

Ya but in my spanish book from school it has China meaning Orange.

[Nyyl]

Ya but in my spanish book from school it has China meaning Orange.

That is very strange, as far as I've learned it, the color orange is anaranjado and the fruit orange is naranja. No dictionaries I've looked at even mention china meaning orange ._.
Does your dictionary by any chance cover different dialects?

[Generalguy]

It's in the Puerto Rican dialect.

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=649062

[Sen]

In any event, the usual word for orange in Spanish appears to be naranja

Wrong kind of orange :V

[ふねん1]

Wrong kind of orange :V

Yeah, I believe the color itself is "anaranjado", though they didn't teach the Puerto Rican dialect at my schools, so I wouldn't have known any better.

[DracoOmega]

Wrong kind of orange :V

Technically, no one had actually specified, up to that point, WHICH orange we were talking about ^^;
(And, for that matter, Orange in Puerto Rican seems to refer to the fruit, as well, rather than the color)

[Reddyne]

So Chen is actually China's mother who is also her own mother while Orange is actually Chen in disguise while China is now the disowned member of the Yakumo family by my stupid fridge logic?

Sweet mercy, get the daytime talk shows on the phone!

[Mounting Jaggis]

I hate having a different Spanish. I once tried ordering some orange soda in Costa Rica but the cashier was baffled. Like for example in most Spanish speaking countries 'bicho' means maggot, bug, mosquito and it's also used as an insult but in Puerto Rico it's a bad word meaning dick. So I was surprised when I heard the Bumblebee Man from The Simpsons wrestling game say bicho.

[Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin]

*reads the interpretations*

Son of a bicho!

[Halca]

In the spanish I speak, china means a chinese girl.