Just for the fun of it I'm currently studying Chinese. Recently I hit a little bit of a personal milestone... I know 50 words in Chinese. Now, that may not seem like much but to me it's rather exciting. Anyway, today my new words were pretty important so I thought I'd share them.
天主
天主教
The first word, 天主 is how a Christian says God in Chinese. It means 'Lord of Heaven', if I understand correctly. I haven't completely figured out the pronunciation yet but I still think it's pretty beautiful.
Lord of Heaven and Earth. Lord of Heart and Soul. Lord of Breath and Word. There are so many things we could call Him, but I think Heavenly Father will always be my favorite and 天主 comes pretty close to that I think. :)
The second word is 天主教, which stands for the Catholic Church. What it literally means is Religion of the Lord of Heaven. Hee.
This is a pretty pointless post but hey! If you ever go to China you'll know how to find the Church at least. :)
Cool! :-)
ReplyDeleteHow are you studying Chinese? Just curious.
Chinesepod.com and skritter.com are the tools I'm using. My employer is also Chinese so I can practice with her (although I've been a bit too shy to do that just yet). As an aside if you want to learn French, Spanish or Italian the Chinesepod.com network can teach you those languages as well. :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome. :-)
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