My older son, who is in 3rd grade, showed me his diary entry for the day (as part of their homework, Chinese elementary school students are encouraged/required to keep a journal that they show to their teacher each day), and I noticed something strange; he wrote a very common word like this:
Can you guess what this is supposed to be?
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