English words that come from Chinese
I enjoy the fact that the word gung-ho comes from Chinese, because when I lived in England I was more than once called, disparagingly, a “gung-ho American.” Liz tells me that ping-pong, too, is a Chinese word. Here are a few others, from a Chinese language website, zhongwen.com.
Posted: June 6th, 2006 under Chinese language.
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