renao
Language: Mandarin · [ʐɤ̂ nau̯] · Pronunciation: RUH-now
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Meaning
crowded and loud, the good kind — the commotion you came for
The story
The characters are hot and noisy, and together they make crowding a compliment: a full restaurant is renao, an empty one is a warning. Chinese even has a verb for going to look at it, kan renao, standing at the edge of a crowd for the noise alone.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Mandarin
- Which feeling does it carry?
- Warm, loud and full of people
- Where would you hear it?
- A night market with every stall going
- What does it mean?
- Crowded and loud in the best way
How it went
Harder than most words so far.
Round three, situation, was where most points went.
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