{"id":477,"date":"2007-08-28T17:50:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/eclispes\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:50:43","slug":"eclispes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; \u6708\u98df (yu\u00e8sh\u00ed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today one of my Chinese contacts asked me the meaning of \u6708\u98df (yu\u00e8sh\u00ed). It&#8217;s not a word I&#8217;ve come across before and I wasn&#8217;t able to guess its meaning from the meanings of the individual characters, so I had to look it up. It means &#8216;lunar eclipse&#8217; and the individual characters mean &#8216;moon&#8217; and &#8216;to eat&#8217;. I suppose it does look like part of the moon has been eaten during an eclipse. A solar eclipse is \u65e5\u98df (r\u00ecsh\u00ed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today one of my Chinese contacts asked me the meaning of \u6708\u98df (yu\u00e8sh\u00ed). It&#8217;s not a word I&#8217;ve come across before and I wasn&#8217;t able to guess its meaning from the meanings of the individual characters, so I had to look it up. It means &#8216;lunar eclipse&#8217; and the individual characters mean &#8216;moon&#8217; and &#8216;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}